SINKING OF AUCKLAND TUG
NAUTICAL INQUIRY TO BE HELD (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, September 14. A nautical inquiry into the circumstances causing the Auckland Harbour Board’s tug Te Awhina to founder near Hobson ‘wharf on August 11 will be opened in the Magistrate’s Court next Wednesday. The Marine Department has appointed Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., to act as president of the Court of Inquiry, which will also consist ofCaptain H. R. Hughes, of Devonport, and Captain R. J. Hamilton, of •Bluff, as nautical assessors, and Mr W. H. Parker, of Auckland, as engineer assessor. The inquiry will be to fix the responsibility for the mishap. The tug was assisting to berth the Federal Line’s motor-ship Essex at Central wharf when she was struck below the water-line by the starboard propeller of the other ship.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 12
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