THIS LIZZIE BELL ENQUIRY.
(PHtt P 8833 ASSOCIATION.) New Plymouth, This Day. The Lizzie Bell enquiry resumed this morning. James Buttnrworth who was sent by the Collector of Customs to report on the boats and look after the wreckage said that the life boat should have been steered with a steer oar and not a rudder and would be less liable to capsize.
Claude Barrow, first mate, said the whole of its crew were sober when they left Wellington. When he came on duty he saw Stephen's lighthouse. The second mite gave him the course northwest magnetic. While he was on duty the course was unaltered. He was relieved again by the second mate at eight o'clock and gave him the course N.N.W. He knew no more till the vessel struck. The only explanation of the disaster he could offer was that something may have affected the compasses, or some under current may have carried the vessel out of her course.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 August 1901, Page 3
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161THIS LIZZIE BELL ENQUIRY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 2 August 1901, Page 3
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