NAUTICAL ENQUIRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9119, 11 April 1908, Page 5

NAUTICAL ENQUIRY.

SECOND EDITION.

THE WAIRUN A -MOON AH COL-

LISIOR

Press Association

Auckland, April 11

The nautical inquiry into the collision between the steamer Wairnna and the “scow Moonah was resinned to-day. Joseph Be Silva, master of the sailing vessel, stated that his side lights were burning six or seven feet above the deck. When he saw the steamer approaching he kept his course, intending to pass red to red and when the steamer was two minutes off he put his helm down and let the ketch come up into the wind. Then the steamer blew one whistle which he meant giving a to starboard just what the Moonah was doing. When the collision occurred the Wairnna must have been going six or seven knots. His lights were in muzzin rigging and were burning brightly just before the collision.