BATTLESHIP COLLISION
ADMIRAL ON TRIAL. RUGBY, Saturday. A court-martial, Avhieh is in accordance Avith usual practice folloAA’ing such accidents, Avill lie held on Tuesday at Portsmouth in connection AA’itli the collision last month of the battlecruisers Hood and RenoAvn. The Hood is in dry dock at Portsmouth and the Renown arrived at Spithead this morning. The defendants at the court-martial are Admiral Bailey, officer commanding the battle-cruiser squadron, Captailn ToAver, flag captain of the Hood, and Captain SaAA-bridge, commanding officer of the RenoAvn. Vice-Admiral Astey Rushton, commanding the Reserve Fleet, Avill preside over the first Court, Rear-Admiral Ramsey OA’er the second, and Rear-Admiral Tottenham OA r er the third.
Paymaster-Captain John Siddalls, Deputy-Judge AdA’oeate, formerly Secretary of the Nerv Zealand NaA’v Board, AA’ill attend the court-martial. —(British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 February 1935, Page 6
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