NAUTICAL ENQUIRIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 2

NAUTICAL ENQUIRIES.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. As a result of the enquiry • into the stranding of tho steatnerln\ ; eran the Court held that the master of the ship was guilty of aii erroi of judgment in hot paying out more cable, and that the third officer was negligent in not looking after the safety of the ship, especially as he avus well acquainted witli. Wellington harbor, and that he ought to have payed out more chain on both 'anchors; tliat the chief officer having come on deck and having taken charge tif the paying out of the . cliuin, ought to have given, the ship more cable, and ought not to have left tile deck before tak" up steps to asce-tairi whether or not the ship liad moved her position. ' The Court ordered the certificate bt the third officer .to be suspended for one month. Counsel for Captain Marshall pointed out that there was no warning in the New Zealand Pilot aboiif; Wellington haibor. The President replied that the Court had not lost sight of that fact. Had' there been a warning trie Court, might have dealt otherwise. ADELAIDE, May 7. The Murine Board found tho captain of the Ardencraig failed to navigate his vessel with sufficient care, jn view of the weather conditions, Tlie finding has been forwarded to the Board of Marine Inquiry.