NEGLECT PROVED FATAL
“Death from misadventure” was the verdict recorded at the inquest at Portland, Dorset, on Stoker Pettyofficer John Edwin Ernest Horn, of H.M.S. Sheldrake, an anti-sub-marine patrol vessel, who died following an explosion in the boiler room of the vessel. The captain of the Sheldrake, Lieutenant-commander A. R. T. Christie, stated that the accident occurred through neglect to carry out the routine in lighting an oilfired boiler.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 14
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69NEGLECT PROVED FATAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 14
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