THE URILLA WRECK.
T A WRONGLY-CHARTED ROCK. Br Titl»erttDh-Prflii Aannouitlon-Oopjrllrhl (Rec. January 8, 11.25 p.m.) ■ Sydney, January 9. Tho Marino \ Court of Inquiry on tho wreok of tho Urilla in Whitsuntide Passago, has exonerated Captain James Garden entirely. ' . Tho commander of H.M-S. Sealark reported that tho rock whereon tho Urilla had struck wag wrongly charted. Tho chart places tho Took south of tho Ripple Rock, whereas it is considerably' to the eastward. The opinion obtains in some quarters, that the Yongali disaster was attributable to this error. ''I' The Urilla struck a rock in Whitsuntide Passage, on the Queensland coast, on July 25 last, and had to be beached. She was subsequently refloated.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 5
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113THE URILLA WRECK. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 5
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