GROUNDING OF A SCHOONER
WAS THE MASTER TO BLAME?
A*cueiOo3 (shipping case came before Mr. E. C. Cutlen, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday. A master mariner named Murdoch McGregor was summoned for an alleged breach of the collision regulations under the Shipping and Seamen Act of 1908. Mr. Shera appeared for the prosecution and Mr. G. M. McGregor represented the defendant. The facts of the case were admitted. The auxiliary schooner Waro, a small vessel of 30 tons register, engaged in carrying coal from Wliangarei to Mahurangi, left the former port on October 10.' The usual course was set, an A.B. being left on watch, with instructions to call the captain when abreast of Point Rodney. This the A.B. failed to do, and, the captain being asleep, the seaman altered the course himself when off the point. As a result the vessel went aground on a sandbank in Omaha Bay. It was floated off without damage by the next tide. The prosecution alleged that tho captain was to blame for mishap. / After a long hearing on the technicalities of marine law Hi's Worship reserved his decision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 5
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