MONTAGU WRECK.
OFFICERS PUNISHED. TRUSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10.45 p.u?., August 21. London, August 21. A oourt-martial took p'ace at Portsmouth couo.ruing the loss of the Modtig”. Exhaustive ovidenoo was given rtgatdirg tho reliance of the officers implicated oo dead reckoning, despite the fog and the imffioaoy of the signals at Lundy, The offioers pleaded in reply i irregularities of the tides. Oapfa’n Adair aed Navigating Lieutenant Dithan were severely rcprimenled and dismissed from the eb'p. Dathan further forfeits two years’ seniority. Newspapers agree that tho Montagu sentence?, though severo, aie just. Tbey rrjoico that the percentage of such groundings exhibits a matked decrease when taken over a series of years, htneo the principles tf discipline and safety of navigation is unimpaired.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1840, 22 August 1906, Page 2
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