PORT HOBART MISHAP
THE COURT’S FINDING [ I’cr Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, May 8. .Expressing the opinion that the master was not justified in continuing bls course at full speed in the last sixteen minutes prior to the mishap, the Nautical Court, which inquired into the mishap to the Port Hobart olf Tura kirae Head on April 4, ordered the master (Captain Cottell) to pay 20 guineas towards the cost of the inquiry. The Court, recognised that the storm, of which the master was not aware, had promoted the set which had probably contributed to putting the ship off her course, which as laid down, was in the Court’s opinion a safe one, bui when the master got glimpse two and a-half points off the starboard bow of what he believed to bo Turakirae. hut which was too indistinct to get a bearing and thereafter could not see land, his prudent course would have been to give the point wider berth. The Court did not think ho was justified in •continuing at full speed on the course he was pursuing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 108, 9 May 1931, Page 6
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