OCEAN A-PISACU A COLLISION.
(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.- -Copyright.) - v (Received May 4, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. At the inquiry jntp . the sir-dung of the Oceana, tlie Pjsagua's officers declared that the Oceana was not steerlrig her ordinary course. Mr Justice Evans, m; his judgment, accepted the* Pisagua's story implicitly. . , The German sailing ship Pisagua, a four-masted barque of "2352 tons, bound for Hamburg from South America with a cargo of nitrate, came bows on almost at right angles to the Oceana. She struck the P .and o'. liner just by the port steering 'light. ( The carpenter's berth is just below the port light, and the unfortunate man had both bis legs crushed. Tlie Piragua made a hole m the Oceana large enough, as one of the passengers expressed \ it, to drive a motor 'bus through. ' •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12754, 4 May 1912, Page 6
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