STRANDING OF TRAWLER
Dunedin. Feb. 4. A Marine Court of Inquiry held into the stranding the National Mortgage and Agency Company’s steam trawler Hananui 11, which went ashore on the east side of the Otago Peninsula on the morning of December 2, concluded to-day. The finding of the Court was that th e accident was caused in the first place by the master’s ignorance of his exact starting point and his failure to take adequate precautions in the existing weather conditions. Captain John Black, master of th e trawler, was Ordered to pay £25 toward the cost of the inquiry and was handed back his certificate.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 5 February 1944, Page 4
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