CAPTAIN AT FAULT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 359, 13 February 1937, Page 5

CAPTAIN AT FAULT

S.S. KAKARIKI.

FATAL COLLISION.

Finding Of Marine Court of Inquiry.

Press Association —Copy’right. Melbourne, Feb. 12

The Marine Court has.' reached a finding in the Kakariki-Caradale collision on January 29, when five of the crew' of ths Kakariki were drowned. Tire court held that the master of the Kakariki, Captain Thomas William White, was in default through failing to keep out of the way of the Caradale, when by his action in altering his course to port the Karariki became the crowding ship, with the Caradale on her t larboard bow. Captain White was thus committing breaches of clauses 19 and 22 respectively of the Navigation Collision Regulation. The court, . however, found that Captain White wns not guilty of a grots act of misconduct and added that had both ships kept their respective courses they would have cleared each other port side to port Pi de;, hut the Kakariki altered her courts to port, thus making a collision inevitable. Claiming £15,000 damages for alleged negligence in the navigation and control of the Kakariki, the James Patrick Company Ltd., owners of the Caradale, has issued a writ against the Union Steam Ship <Jompany arising out of the collltion on January 29.