THE VICTORIA COURTMARTIAL.
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(Received 8 p.m., July 19th.) Loudon, July 18.
At the Court-martial to-day Staff Command or T. H. Smith, of H.M.S. Victoria, deposed that Admiral Tryon admitted that the collision was entirely his own fault.
(Received 1.15 a.m., July 20th.) July 19.
At the enquiry to-day Captain Burke admitted that he might have reversed the Victoria’s screw without orders, and said that be would have done so if Admiral Tryon had not been present. Staff Commander T. Hankins Smith thought that the evolution required about a distance of ten cables.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7267, 20 July 1893, Page 1
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