VESTRIS DISASTER
VINDICATION OF SHIP’S PERSONNEL. I United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—CopJ’fcight). LONDON, July 5. The Board of Trade’s most protracted maritime inquiry has concluded. It concerned the sinking of the British liner Vestris in the Caribbean Sea. The hearing occupied forty days compared with 37 days in connection with the Titanic disaster.
Air Raeburn, King’s Counsel, for the Board of Trade, submitted that there Was no evidence of confusion as regards the launching of the boats. The engineers did not act unreasonably in quitting the stokehold. He said that Captain Carey was apparently /the sort of man who was well able to deal with such a situation. Thcro seemed to have been no lack of order and discipline. It was doubtful if an earlier “5.0.5.” from the Vestris would have made any difterence. There was no evidence that a single life had been lost through the omission to summon help earlier. ' Air Raeburn announced that the costs of the inquiry amounted to ovei £14,000, without counting the services of the Board of Trade’s solicitors and officials, or the owners’ costs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1929, Page 6
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