HARBOUR COLLISION
MARIKS COURT'S FINDING TUGMASTER’S ERROR OE JUDG-, MENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, October 3. (Received October 3, at 9.25 o.tn.) 'Fhe Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry found that the harbour collision on September 23 between a freighter and the tug Hero, resulting in the latter being sunk and an engineer being drowned, was due to an error of judgment on the part of the tngmaster. Osborne Weldon, in keeping too eloso to tho freighter, but lie could not lie said to be guilty of negligence. Efforts are now being made to raise flic tug, which lies in PIG loot of water.
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Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 8
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103HARBOUR COLLISION Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 8
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