THE TITANIC WRECK.
COUNSEL FOR STEERAGE PASSENGERS. By Teleswph-Press Association-Copyright. London, May 8. At tho Titanic Court, of Inquiry permission was asked to have tho steerage passengers represented at the inquiry by counsel. It was stated that two third-class passengers had alleged that while they were swimming some of the crew struck their heads and hands and prevented them from climbing into a boat.
EVIDENCE OF SEAMEN.
London, May 8.
A seaman named Lee, who was with Fleet, another seaman, in the crow's nest at the time of the disaster, testified that there was a thick haze ahead, which thickened, but that, tho speed waa uot slackened after Fleet's warning that there was an iceberg light ahead. Ho acknowledged thnt from the bridge the iceberg appeared as a dark mass with only a white spot of fringe along the top. The first berg was seen when it was half a mile or less distant.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19120510.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154THE TITANIC WRECK. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in