WARATAH ENQUIRY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 327, 11 January 1911, Page 5

WARATAH ENQUIRY.

THE ROLL OF A VESSEL. By Telegraph. - I*ic = - Association.- (.'•jpyrigat London. Monday At the Wars tab inquiry. Sir William White, naval architect, testiI fied that the stability curve wss very good Complaints that the vesscll was too hie;h out of the water was unwarranted. If the cargo were disposed according to the evidence the vessel could not have foundered through instability. The metacentric height was satisfactrov. Received January 10. 10.50 p.m. London, Yesterday. The dead weight amounted to 9204 tons, including a cargo of Coso tons and 250 tons of coal on the spare deck. Sir William White said there was nothing unusual in the Waratah's superstructure and and decks. He did not think there was the slightest foundation for the theory that sha was high out of water and that she was dangerously exposed to wind pressure. It was fallacious to deduce from f-he ship's inclination of two or three degrees under a slight wind that there was no metacentric height. If the vessel went over on one side, and then found a position of equilibrium, it was not necessarily unsafe. Passengers who thought the Waratah slow in rolling probably only had experi- : ence of fast rolling vessels. The : Lusitania and Mauretania took twelve ; minutes to swing out to out.