SHIPOWNER SENT TO GAOL.
UNSEAWORTHY STEAMERS. IMPORTANT CASE IN ENGLAND. (BT CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COPTKIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 29th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON. November 29. Watkin James Williams, aged fortysix, a shipowner, was sentenced to a year's gaol and ordered to pay the costs of prosecution on thirteen counts in connexion with the sending out ot the British steamers Eastway and Tidewav in an unseaworthy condition. The Eastway foundered with the loss of 23 lives in a hurricane in the IJermudas. „ ~14. The Attorney-General alleged that the ships were persistently overloaded from foreign ports. . . The Judge, in summing up, pointed out that although Williams said he told his marine superintendent to instruct the captains that they must not overload, he had not called the superintendent as a witness. The case was ot the gravest importance to the shipping community and sailors.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 9
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143SHIPOWNER SENT TO GAOL. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19171, 30 November 1927, Page 9
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