NO NEGLIGENCE
NIAGARA’S COLLISION. PASSENGERS UNPERTURBED. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, August 19. “It was one of those things that happen,” said Captain T. V. Hill, master of the liner Niagara, when commenting after the vessel’s arrival at Auckland upon the collision between the Niagara and the King Egbert near Vancouver on July 17. “There was no loss of life and no stranding of ships, and the finding at the inquiry before the Wreck Commissioner to the Canadian Government and Superintendent of Pilots was that there had been no negligence. “There was a peculiar intermittent fog at the time of the accident,” said Captain Hill, who was on the bridge when the impact occurred. “Both ships were going slow and he hit me with the flange of his boat. I had the boats swung out in a few minutes, provisioned and blanketed, but five minutes later some of the passengers were dancing again. “The fog lifted again,” Captain Hill added, “and we could see for five or six miles. We lost 14 days while the repairs were being made.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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179NO NEGLIGENCE Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 7
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