Just One of Those Things That Happen
NIAGARA’S COLLISION IN FOG AUCKLAND, Last Night. "It was one of those things that happen,” said Captain T. V, Hill, master of the liner Niagara, when commenting after Iho vessel’s arrival at Auckland upon tko collision between the Niagara and the King Egbert near Vancouver on July 17. "Thero was no loss of life and no stranding of the ships, and the finding at the inquiry before the wreck commissioner of the Canadian Government and the superintendent of pilots was that there had been no negligence. "There’was a peculiar intermittent fog at the time of the accident,” said Captain Hill, who was on the bridge when the impact occurred. "Both ships were going slow and ho hit me with the flange of his bow. I had the boats swung out in a few minutes provisioned and blanketed, but live minutes later some of the passengers were dancing again.
"Five minutes after the collision,” Captain Hill added, "the fog lifted again and we could see for live or six miles. We lost 14 days while repairs wore being made.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 195, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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