HOW THE NEW ENGLAND WAS LOST.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1086, 16 February 1883, Page 4

HOW THE NEW ENGLAND WAS LOST.

'Atthe inquiry into the cause of i he wreck •of mu steamer New tnt'land, with the loss at many lives, John Lem dm, chief engtmer nf he vessel, stated that after the chief •officer told him that he was not to move the •engines without his oiders, he (Lemaire) went on to the bridge, called the captain •down to the appor deck, an I asked him ii he was going out. Captain Mann replied in •Use alhrmative, a Ming that the pilot distinctly told him that there was sufficient •water in the channel to allow of their going ■out. Witness then aske I the mate of the vessel if he would go no and stand by the' cpt.in in case anything should ba|pn, •Jd« saw that there was something the in liter with the captain. The mate went up accordingly. To th‘- early part of the diy ■it appeared to him (Lemaire) that the cip■•tain had had too much Jiqnor. He did not’ appear to work the ship coming down the tiver'that day as well as usual, and he (witness) thought this was from the effects of drink. Tire chief engineer detailed at length what cook place after the steamer struck. The president, on behalf of the Board, complimented Mr Leipaire upon the btavery ha had exhibited in risking his life to save others, nnd sai l if there had been some more like him on the occasion of the wreck there would probably have b en far Ti ps log i of life, Henry Jamieson, steward ■on Hoa-d the New England, stated that the agmit of, the Company came to him at South <tratten before the vessel loft, and told him *wt to give the captain anything to drink.