Naval officer reprimanded
PA Auckland A Navy sub-lieutenant has been reprimanded at a CourtMartial in connection with the sinking of a Navy tender returning from the crash site of a Royal Australian Air Force Fill bomber in the Hauraki Gulf last November. John Bernard Pope was convicted of putting the. vessel Meola in hazard but a charge of causing the vessel to be damaged by striking a shoal was dismissed. Pope had denied both
i The charges were laid under the Naval Discipline Act and heard before a Navy Court at H.M.N.Z.V. Ngaroma on Saturday. Pope had earlier told the Court-Martial that he had been supervising a member of the crew, who had been [at the helm, when he had I felt a jolt. He had stopped the craft and had inspected it but had found no damage. After continuing towards the Devonport Naval base, the boat had been found to be taking water. The bilge pump could not be found and a crew member had had to use bailers. Defence counsel (Mr C. S. Blackie) said that Pope could not be blamed for the Meola’s sinking because if all the equipment in the boat had been working the tender would not have sunk.
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Press, 23 April 1979, Page 2
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