OFFICERS BLAMED’
STRANDING OF THE PORT SAINT JOHN. FINDING OF MARINE COURT. SYDNEY, May 31. At the Marine Court inquiry into the stranding of the Port Saint John, which went ashore on Lady Elliot Island on the night of May 3, the third officer, Robert Nicholl, who was at the wheel at the time of the stranding, gave evidence that Captain William Lynd had allowed a three degrees set against the vessel for the southerly current, which in ordinary circumstances should have kept the ship 1J miles off the reef, but that' no allowance had been made fpr the flood tide which happened to be very strong and grew stronger as the ship neared the island. The court found that the cause of stranding was the setting of too fine a course without making proper allowance for tidal influences. This resulted in the vessel being miles off her course when Captain Lynd went to the bridge and accepted the third officer’s report of the position of the ship.
The court found that the captain’s actions merited censure, and that the third officer was guilty of careless navigation in not taking sufficient bearings to verify his position.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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196OFFICERS BLAMED’ Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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