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Return of Accidents to Seamen and Others on board Ship reported to the Marine Department during the Financial Year ended the 31st March, 1905.

Date of Name of Vessel, Port of Registry, N , p „ iniiiriw. Accident. and Official Number. Jsame ot Person m 3 ured. Nature of Injury : Fatal or otherwise. j Place where Accident occurred. I Particulars as to Accident and its Cause arid Verdict of Jury where Coroner s Inquest held. 1904 April 6 Haupiri, s.s., Dunedin, 89094 .. Richard Rondeau, A.B. Loss of right foot Nelson While mooring vessel to wharf, Richard Rondeau, -4.B., who was hauling in a steel mooring-line, got his leg entangled in a bight of the line, and his right foot was cut off. While carrying a bucket of water down ladder from deckjto stokehold, A. T. Boddington lost his hold, and fell into the stokehold. Mr. W. A. Snook, third engineer, while working at main engines, a weight came away and caught his thumb. In discharging cargo, a sling of five sacks oats was being bullroped into a cart on the wharf, when the foremast carried away just below the eyes of the lower rigging. The master, who was standing on the wharf, was struck with the faffing gear and knocked back on board, striking the winch-end. J. Commons, who was loading the cart, had one leg broken, and a compound fracture of the other, besides sustaining internal injuries. Whilst William Wrixon was engaged slinging cargo under the hatchway, and standing in the square of the hatch, a sling of cargo, which was being hove up, carried away, and he was struck by the faffing sacks. George Nilson was standing on the deck supervising discharge of ballast from vessel; the gin with which the baskets oi ballast were hoisted from the hold carried away, and the block falling, struck him on the head. When unmooring ship, W T . Nitingale, A.B., accidentally received a blow from the bight of the chain-lanyard of the mooringhawser while he was casting off the bitts ; the blow fractured his left leg between the knee and ankle. He was immediately attended to by the ship's surgeon, and on arrival at Lyttelton, was conveyed to Christchurch Hospital. While landing a large boiler and fittings into railway-trucks, H. Sauer, A.B., put his foot against the truck to get a pull on the tackles, and when the dome was lowered it caught and jambed his toe. On voyage from Auckland to Westport, vessel met with heavy weather, during which, Mr. Patrick, the mate, was thrown against the rail. Edward Castle, A.B., who was employed removing the mailbags to the mail-room, fell down the hatchway. When vessel was lying at wharf loading timber, the cook, Bennett Lissing, was getting water from a tank on the wharf from a wire-bound hose-pipe, and scratched the back of his hand with some wire that was sticking out of the end of the pipe. » 15 Canopus, s.s., Dunedin, 101490 Alfred Thomas Bodding- Contusion of right elbow ton, trimmer Off Wellington Heads, Cook Strait May 7 Victoria, s.s., Melbourne, 110996 William Allen Snook, Injury to thumb third engineer Queen of the South, s.s., Wei- Edward John Harvey, Collarbone broken and face injured lington, 74793 master John Commons, carter.. Legs fractured and internal injuries Lyttelton „ 17 Foxton June 1 I Pukaki, s.s., Dunedin, 84491 .. ', William Wrixon, lumper Slight concussion of the brain Wellington „ 1 Anglo - Norman, Norwegian George Nilson, second Skull fractured; fatal barque mate Quay Street Jetty, No. 2, Auckland ~! Tongariro, s.s., Plymouth, 111356 W Nitingale, A. B. .. Fracture of left leg Timaru 9 Terranora, p.s.. Auckland, 75005 H. Sauer, A.B. .. Toe injured Railway Wharf, Auckland „ 14 ■ Kinclune, Lyttelton, 75194 .. Robert William Patrick, Ribs broken mate At sea, off West Coast July 9 Monowai, s.s., Dunedin, 84497 Edward Castle, A.B. .. Ribs broken and injury to arm .. At sea, near entrance to Port Nicholson Blackball Wharf, Pelorus ■-ound „ i0 Lizzie Taylor, Launceston, 79299 Bennett Lissing, A.B. and Blood-poisoning ; fatal cook