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November 14
The enquiry into the loss of the ship England's Glory was concluded at 10 p.m. on Saturday before Captains Thomson, of Dunediu, Ellis, and Henry McCullocb, K.M. The captain's and officers' certificates were returned. Pilot Thompson, who was in charge, said he could only account for the accident by the vessel not paying off, and supposed something was wrong in the steering gear. Junior Pilot McDonald stated that he believed the counter current running along the shore prevented the vessel's head paying off, with the flood tide and wind on the port quarter, although the rudder appeared to him as he sat in the boat not to be hard up. The decision of the Court will be given to-day. The finding of the court of inquiry re the wreck of the ship England's Glory exonerates the captain and officers, and blames Pilot Thomson for directing the ship in shore in order that he might board her, this course bringing her within tbe influence of the eddie with her head inshore. The Court was of opinion that as a last resource the anchors should have been let go.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3236, 14 November 1881, Page 3
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