The Halcione Wreck.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, Jau. 15
The Magisterial inquiry into the wreck of the Halcione was commenced to-day. The evidence was much the same as the published account of the disaster. Captain Boorman said he was standing off the Heads to pick up Soames Island light, when one of the most sudden changes of wind ever experienced sprung up, attended with lightning and rain. About a mile and a half off Pencarrow the vessel’s course changed, and as the light was shortly after obscured, he had the lead cast, when 12 fathoms with no bottom was recorded. Immediately after he saw the ship in close proximity to the land. He attempted to wear the ship, and while doing this crunched on the rocks at a speed of one and a half knots. He considered he was caught in a trap by the sudden change of wind and thick weather The finding of the Court was that the casualty was caused by accident through stress of weather, without any neglect or default on the part of the Captain or the crew. The Crown bears the cost of the enquiry.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 166, 16 January 1896, Page 2
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191The Halcione Wreck. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 166, 16 January 1896, Page 2
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