"UNFORTUNATE SHIPS."
INEXPLICABLE FOUNDERING
The inexplicable foundering of the steamer Turret Hill, which lurched down by the head and turned turtle with terrible rapidity on May 13 last, was the subject of recent investigation by the Board of Trade Court at Hull.
, Twelve out of 14 souls on board wero drowned, the only survivors being Captain Thompson and Chief-Engineer Evans. Mr. Williamson, representing the National Sailors' and , Firemen's Union, called Walter Norton, delegate • of that body at Goole. Witness said complaints were frequently made by members of a
crew of • the, condition of a ship. Mr. Williamson- pointed ,-at that the underwriters' premiums on the* ship were increased from 12 guineas to 23 per cent. Mr. Robertsons* for the owners, admitted that that was "so. The ship had been unfortunate in the matter of standings and collisions. There were unfortun/.? ships as there were unfortunate .it I underwriters, .without casting reflections on their stability, would desire to protect themselves. ■ Mr. Hamar Greenwood, for the Board of Trade, agreed there was no clear evidence of unseaworthiness. Judgment" was deferred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15730, 3 October 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)
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