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INQUIRY INTO DISASTER OFFICERS’ ALLEGATIONS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 13. Chief Officer James M. Henderson and the third officer, Harold Peterson, of the rescue liner President Cleveland, told the Morro Castle Board of Inquiry to-day that they did not wish to. serve longer with Captain Robert B. Carey, of the President Cleveland, because they alleged that Captain Carey delayed in sending lifeboats to the aid of the Morro Castle.
Peterson said he believed that more lives could have been saved if the President Cleveland’s lifeboats had put out sooner.
Captain Carey said that two lifeboats were lowered “as soon as we could,” but said that no people were picked up, as his men reported that they had not seen any to rescue.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22368, 15 September 1934, Page 13
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