LOSS OF LINER
OFFICERS AND OWNERS BLAMED IJnit«d Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ] LONDON. February ‘26The judgment of the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the liner Highland Hope on November 19th last off the coast of Portugal, states the loss of the ship was due to the failure of the Master to navigate it in a proper seamanlike manner. His certificate is suspended for six months. The second officer was severely reprimanded for concealing the fact that he had brought the deck scrap log ashore, subsequently destroying it, and he was fined £l2. The owners of the liner were not absolved from blame, be-
cause the master, who is 75 years old, was so old that he could not be expected to stand the physical strain of commanding so large a vessel,
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1931, Page 5
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134LOSS OF LINER Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1931, Page 5
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