LOSS OF A STEAMER
SERIOUS ALLEGATION.
TESTIMONY OF DEAD CAPTAIN. By Telegraph—Pre=a Association—Copyright London, July 9. At the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss 'of tlio steamer Mountoswald, with twenty-four hands, in Pobruary, 1912, the vessel being grain-laden from Baltimore to Hamburg, a letter was read which Captain Stannard had posted to his wife through tho pilot after sailing, saying that ho wanted tho ship dry-docked at New York, but that the owners had refused. The letter added that there was twelve feet of water in the forepeak. Counsel stated that the owners relied on a certificate of seaworthiness.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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100LOSS OF A STEAMER Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1799, 11 July 1913, Page 5
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