CONFLICTING EVIDENCE
VESSELS IN COLLISION KAKARIKI AND CARADALE MELBOURNE, Feb. 4. (Received Feb. 5, at 1.45 a.m.) Conflicting evidence about the whistle signals given by the Kakariki on the night of the collision with the Caradale was submitted by the masters of the respective vessels at the Marine Court of Inquiry today. , Captain Hansen, master of the Caradale, said the Kakariki sounded only one whistle blast, indicating that she was turning to starboard, while the master of the Kakariki, Captain White, declared that he gave two blasts twice, warning that he was turning to port. Captain Hansen said he had no man on the lookout. He saw the Kakariki dodging all the time. She was the meeting ship* and it was her duty to keep out of the way. Captain White said the Caradale took no notice of his first two whistle blasts; consequently he sounded two more, to which there was no reply. He could see a collision was inevitable, and ordered the engines hard astern when the Caradale was still a ship’s length away.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 10
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