SEQUEL TO VINDICTIVE EXPLOSION.
VRugby, August 16. Lieutenant Simon Borett, of His Majesty’s ship Vindictive, was disniised his skip and severely reprimanded by a court-martial at Chatham as the result of an explosion in the Vindictive at iChatham on July 23 by which an engineroom artificer was fatally injured and -two stokers were hurt. He was found fuilty of neglect of duty in allowing the fuse of a bomb to be supplied and sectioned without properly ascertaining whether it was safe or dangerous to be cut up.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3986, 20 August 1929, Page 1
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87SEQUEL TO VINDICTIVE EXPLOSION. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3986, 20 August 1929, Page 1
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