CATTERTHUN INQUIRY.
Sydney, September 25. The Marine Board found that the loss of the et earner Catserthua was caused firstly by Captain Shanoa navigating too olose to the land on a stormy night, and ordering a coarse which brought the vessel too near a well known daoger in tha vioinity of the Seal Boohs, and secondly by Mr Lanfear, seoond mate, altering hiß course without authority, thu3 causing her to strike the Books. The Board will deal with the latter's certificate on Monday. The Marine Board added a rider to the Catterthun decision that it is not quite dear what oocurred after the vessel slruok. From the position of the wreok, they could hardly realise how the vessel was headed, and had she been taken into Seal Eooks Bay she would have found smooth and shallow water. With referenoe to statements that the women were not sooner warned and attended to, the Board had no donbt the osptain and officers didn't realise there was such imminent danger of foundering.
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Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8303, 26 September 1895, Page 3
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169CATTERTHUN INQUIRY. Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8303, 26 September 1895, Page 3
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