Clanranald Disaster.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10632, 4 February 1909, Page 2

Clanranald Disaster.

DSNiQtiaiKlY OPENED.

SENSITItfML EVIDENCE.

SEIRIOUS CMAJRIGE AOAINST

C!A|»TAIM

(Per Uniited Preaa AaßOoiaitioa.)

ADEiLAiIDE, February 4. The inquiry by the Marine Boail re the Olamranaltl is opened.

Mr Rose, chief officer, handed in a report that the vessel suddenly list til to about 45 degrees. The vessel v/..\ allowed to drift i» ashore to within 1 mil© of the land* when the starboard amctior was let. «■(> in IS fathom's. Eventually -Kb. 3 hatch was 'trashed adirift a,f17l the vessel set down, on her brofldsi'de and £aaik stern first. Ha was vnabTei to say what caused tho list.. Wlien. the pilot kit the ship the captain asked witness to navii<ra,te, as he -was umwell: Witness thoujrht the cniptain, ihiad been, drinki.ni<r heavily. There was no indioa'tion. that the vessel had sfirucifc anything. The best behaviour obtained amon<r the officcus} and. crew. The wa«, found !\- ---»oi<r on the floor <if the cabin: in • a dazed state. Tie was helped'on deck a.ndi pla.oeid inside tih© boot abreast th;.caibin.^ He ■believed the ship woii)l-:l have ridden throush but for th«» hatch coming off and lettinsr the water below 1.

The inquiiry was adjourned until a cfiivetf exiamnines tiEe hull of the sunkea steamier.