THE WRECKED LINER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10739, 2 September 1913, Page 8

THE WRECKED LINER.

THE COURTS DECISION. CAPTAIN SUSPENDED FOR THREE MONTHS. Per Press Association. Wellington, September 2. The Marine Court of Inquiry gave its decision to-day regarding the wreck of the Devon. In the opinion of the Court the cause of the stranding was that way was not taken off the vessel so as to allow of her being bandied expeditiously in narrow waters; that the Master mistook the lights and that the vessel was navigated too closely to Pencarrow side of the entrance ; that the stranding was contributed to by default of the Master, who was a stranger to the port, in not having made himself acquainted with the leading lights of Ihe port, |and, when these were obscured by the squally conditions of the weather prevailing at the time, in not heading the vessel out clear of the land to await clearer weither or daylight. The Court imposed on Captain Oatmee a penalty of three months’ suspension, and ordered him to pay costs of the inquiry, £l6.