GREYCLIFFE DISASTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 253, 16 January 1928, Page 1

GREYCLIFFE DISASTER

MARINE OFFICERS PROTEST “A WRONG ASSUMPTION” MEETING IN AUCKLAND Captains and officers from all the ships in port met in Auck’and this morning l , and, after discussing the Australian Court’s finding in the Greycliff e-Tahiti collision inquiry, confirmed the opinion of the meeting of captains in Sydney, that the finding involved an impossibility. Captain V. Hill, of the Niagara, presided at to-day’s meeting, which was an official one of the Merchant Service Guild. The motion passed was as follows: “That this meeting confirm the opinion of the Merchant- Service Guild in Sydney, in pi’otesting against the Court’s finding in the Grey differ Tahiti collision.” The opinion of the Sydney meeting was that the Court’s finding involved a physical impossibility, and was based on the argument that it was impossible for the Tahiti to approach the Greycliffe from any direction from 10 degrees to 90 degrees on the pert quarter and to bring about an impact with the Greycliffe except her stern with any part of the Tahiti. The evidence before the guild in Sydney was that there was no mark anywhere on the port quarter of the Greycliffe consistent with a blow from the 'stem of the Tahiti.