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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 13TH DECEMBER, 1890.
NOTICE.
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The following addition to the Register of Medical and Surgical Practitioners qualified to practise Medicine and Surgery in this Colony, pursuant to Ordinance 6 of 1884, is published for general information.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th December, 1890.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
PERSONS QUALIFIED TO PRACTISE MEDICINE AND SURGERY.
NAME.
ADDRESS.
Blackburn, Herbert
Rose Villa West, Bonham Road.
NATURE OF QUALIFICATION.
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Edinburgh; Licen- tiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Licentiate in mid- wifery.
DATE OF QUALIFI-
CATION.
18th July, 1889.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 517.
The following finding of a Marine Court of Enquiry is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 13th December, 1890.
FINDING.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary,
We find that the Pembrokeshire was a British steam vessel schooner rigged three masted of 1,717 tons registered tonnage, Official No. 85,171 of London, of which ship. JAMES DANCASTER holding a Master's Certificate, No. 86,305 issued at Padstow, dated the 22nd November, 1871, was Master.
It appears from the evidence before the Court that she sailed from Singapore on the 7th day of November, 1890, with a general cargo bound for Hongkong. She experienced a moderate N.E. monsoon and squally weather until arriving in the latitude of Cape Padaran from the Paracels up the force of the monsoon was almost equal to a fresh gale and cloudy.
The last observations obtained for longitude were on the forenoon of the 13th November. These sights do not appear in any way to have been checked. The latitude by meridian altitude on the 15th was unsatisfactory the weather being cloudy. From noon on the 15th a course. was shaped for the Gap Rock. At 9.50 P.M. on the 15th the engines were stopped and soundings obtained in 23 fathoms. The course was then continually altered to the North and Westward to N. by W. at 10.45 P.M. soundings were again obtained in 18 fathoms.
This appears to have induced the Master to think that he was West of his reckoning; he, however, proceeded full speed 8 knots till land was observed at 11.30 P.M. bearing half a point on the port bow. At 11.45 P.M. the engines were stopped and soundings were taken in 3 fathoms immediately afterwards the ship struck.
The Court having regard to the circumstances above stated finds as follows: that the Master was guilty of wrongful default in approaching too near to the land when not certain of his position, and that the navigation was careless and untrustworthy, further having regard to the steps taken to heave the vessel off after being stranded, the Court finds that proper, prompt and seamanlike steps were not taken and orders that the Master JAMES DANCASTER'S Certificate No. 86,305 be suspended for six months from this date.
Given under our hands at Hongkong this eighth day of December, 1890.
Approved.
F. FLEMING,
ficer Admin'stering the Government.
WM. C. H. HASTINGS, R.N.,
President.
A. S. MILLS, Lieutenant, R.N.
FRANCIS COLE,
J. JACKSON, JAMES YOUNG,
Masters, Mercantile
Marine.