FERRY TRAGEDY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19161, 18 November 1927, Page 11

FERRY TRAGEDY.

eN QUIBV RESUMED. plpgfCß OF NAVAL MEN. WtISS associatio-v-copybiget.) ( rt aWJ- p " cablb association.) (Beccived November 17th, 5.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 17. He <uquiry into the loss of the t;ffA was resumed. 'S,: »J"t, Chief Petty Officer Jie destroyer Success, gave evu u jijat, be was accustomed to , he higher speeds of vessels fJTII its. 6 On the day of the iron. 1 . „ on a pontoon at wr(fljlision he |ie Tahiu pass ed i nearer m than was usually the ml doing about 12 knots. After hiti the pontoon ocked **Hd K rocked before. This " 'paused bv the Tahiti passing. The and the Tahiti appeared to ' nwreine and then the Grevrfa altered her course in such a JJ e M to make the vessels converge ker Fifteen seconds later the iK! with "models and a chart, witJ, showed how the Greyeliffe, after t.-imr her course, had crossed the «B struck on the port *rter bv the bow of the liner. Just Lfnre the accident witness added that rvl steam come from the side of fa Tahiti, indicating two blasts of Petty Offioer on •k. finccess. gave evidence that he was on the pontoon at Garden Island lathe dav of the collision. He saw X Grevcliffo alter her course. She ap"Lj to be drifting sideways to £2 The wind was very slight. He vLrred the drifting movement when V ferry was 400 yards from the ponton .and it went on continuously BHtil the collision. The Tahiti nassed a, pontoon travelling about 12 knots mi appeared to be making up speed igd heading on the same course as gt Greyeliffe. After describing the i»irling water around the pontoon as fte Tahiti passed, witness said he had jet oteerved a similar condition before a* big overseas boats did not Bjjfly pass so close to the pontoon. Titnen added that he could only account for the collision by the drift of tie Greyeliffe.