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eye-
One other matter, not unimport- ant was this. The steersmen of the "Dotterel" said that the last order he got was hard, aport Just before the collision, and he gave away the "Dotteral's" case of lying stopped with no way on her by tell- ing the court họ, had way on the
CANAL COLLISION. lision, and what precisely happened ship which allowed her to answer as thoso vessels were getting to the her helm, and he thought, but wasn't sure or ho know, but position his Lordship did not think wasn't sure which it was that her anybody could tell. On the whole,
engines were going ahead either he had come to the conclusion that half or full speed. The engineer the eye-witnesses were more reli
a slip of able about this than Mr. Young. Of of the "Dotterol" had
paper on which he kept the orders Depite her surveyor's evidence, course, if Mr. Young was right it of the blackboard, and the last Mr. Justice Bateson, the Admiralty destroyed a good deal of the "Nest order, in the heiroglyphics he used, Court, said he was driven by an tun's" evidence as to where they
In his notebook to which these examination of the factors to find, were in the canal, because their was full speed ahead. that the Liverpool ateamer "Dot-case about their position was that orders ought to have been trana- tere!" went too fast up the Ship they were right over on their pro-ferred, the order was put down as Canal, and so hit the steamer per side and it was very difcult to full speed astern, and his evidence "Nesttun," which he had signalled, get any sort of angle that would
¡was that it was full speed astern. It Was to bo noticed that SOUTH AMERICA (West Coust) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, to come on down, and the "Nest bring the "Nesttun" to such a posi-
next tan" never proceeded in the crab- tion as to be in collision with her if that was the order, the like fashion which the "Dotterel" stem. It also destroyed the "Dot order was not for ten minutes, and SOUTH AMERICA (East Const) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports wished to any was the sole cause of terel's" case, to a large extent, as then his Lordship thought it was to the crab-like motion by which ahead slow. So it was quite Friday, 8th June,
the encounter.
the they wanted to say the "Nesttun" clear the engineer had not got all The suit was brought by owners of the "Nesttun" against had come down from Partington, the orders, because it was not to be the 'Dottore!" over a collision in for it put the "Nesttun" very near-supposed that he went fall ahead the Canal on the night of January or within 8 degrees of being-for ten minutes immediately after 19 last, and the "Dotterel" counter-on a straight up and down course this accident, and his Lordship was
His Lordship, concluded the claimed.
witnesses were right, and the sur- quite certain he did not go full Mr. Lewis Noad
There was not much doubt that plaintiffs, instructed by Messrs. veyor on one side did not outweigh speed astern for ten minutes. Batesons and Co., Liverpool, and the evidence on the other coupled there was an ahead order about the Mr. R. H. Balloch for the "Nest
time of the accident, and that went tun," instructed by Messrs. Weight
a long way to show that this vessel man, Pedder and Co., Liverpool.
His Lordship said the "Nesttun"
was trying to get out of a difficulty, and the only difficulty his Lordship was 1,270 tons gross, 237ft, long,
thought she would be likely to be trying to get out of was correcting and 36ft. Gin, beam, and she left a
a sheer, It was said that the point tip at Partington about 20 minutes after four Santander with pitch. Again, Mr. Young put the com- about holding back was not raised She said she saw the "Detterel" a bined speed at five knots.
The by the pleader. Quite true, it was Was rather not. The answer to that was that mile off, and sounded a long and a court thought that short, to which the "Dotterel" re- more, and his Lordship thought it it was not the true case. plled with a long blast. The "Dot-was nearly all on the "Dotterel." "Nesttun" had been coming down terel," approaching rapidly, at 600 The "Dottere!" sald herself that the like a crab, right athwart the canal, feet closed her green. The "Nest-Nesttun" had not any way, and nobody would imagine the "Dot- tun" again sounded a long and his Lordship did not think the terel" would ever have gone on in short, she was on her atarboard "Nesttun" had more than a knot the way she did. The only justi
a little over. But the blow acation for her going on at all was length away, shut in her red and seemed to him to have been caused that the "Nesttun" was coming opened her green. The "Nesttun" by very much more than that. The down in the ordinary way, and that "Dotterel" was the "Dotterel" expected to pass her LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore went hard aport and reversed, but anchor of the
the "Dotterel" at speed, with her driven right into the side of the all right, and this was supported by Colombo, Suez and Port Said. ALTAI MARU
stem struck the port bow of the "Nesttun," and one of the flukes the evidence that the "Dotterel" hailed her to come on. The "Nest- RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore, "Nesttun." It was said the "Dot- was apparently hroken off.
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town
The Judge said he thought the tun" was coming down in the ordin- tercl" did not keep to her own side. The "Dotterel" was a Liverpool "Dotterel" was going pretty nearly ary way, not crab-like, blocking the vessel, 1,740 tons gross, 260ft, long five knots herself when this blow whole canal, and the "Dotterel" and 36ft. beam, and in approaching took place. It might be that the was alone to blame.
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with their surveyor, The damage on the "Nesttun" seemed to hie Lordship and he was speaking for himself and the Elder Brethren clearly to indicate a heavy blow with speed.
side, but the "Dotterel," at half a or
Combined Speed.
DUREAN, BELAGGA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND the "Nesttun" said she hailed her anchor being where it was,
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to come on, She said the "Nest-being brought up by something! tun" was on the wrong side of the massive, would help to drive the channel, that was to say on the quarter of the "Nesttun" against "Nesttun's" port side, and struck the brickwork of the south side of
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port side, and then with her port Bible explanation of the daminga on bow struck the port anchor and the port quarter. The "Dotterel's" The case was that a fresh was running port bow of the "Dotterel." suggestion was that the "Nesttun" up very strong. That was the ori east off from the tip at a wrong ginal case, but it rather melted as
they proceeded. time, and failed to get to her own side of the channel, and to slacken. Conclusive Evidence.
Young
wus
If the
CANNON STOLEN.
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. For the "Dotterel" Mr. Young that at six o'clock he found the the armament of fishing-boat No. one to 1 knots. Of 3,657 HA of Hong Kong, and was gave some elaborate-at any rate, current detailed reasons why he thought course that was considerably ear-missed between 10 p.m, and 1 q.m.
was on the night of May 31-June 1. the angle of the "Dotterel" was less lier, The "Dotterel's" case then had been represented. Mr. that she was proceeding in the cen- betre of the canal, making two knots, always to
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when to gave evidence in these matters, That was clearly an error. and kc pointed to plece was going full speed. She saw the of evidence which he said was con- "Nesttun" in plenty of time and at clusive in his mind-the mark of sufficient distance, to give herself, what he said was the stem of the if she had not been going much too "Dotterel" in a piece of plate at the fast, ample opportunity to get her way off. His Lordship dare say! very after-end of the damage on board the "Nesttun." That showed that if she had stopped her engines him, he said, that the angle must at once, and perhaps given them a have been fine, because he got this touch astern now and then, shes.S. WEST ISLIP" ....June 23 piece of plate from practically the might have kept her heading and
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For full information apply to "Dotterel" made the mark-and he! suld he was quite sure It did, nearly a mile from the "Nesttun"-
SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. though he had never seen such a she had no business, in his Lord- peculiar stem mark-it proved con- ship's view, to go up to meet her clusively to his mind that the angle where she actually did, so close to at that period was 18 degrees; and the bridge. It was excessive speed working back from that, he con- on her part that took her there. cluded that the angle must have Whether she thought she might been much finer-8 to 6 degrees-squeeze through or not his Lord- hip did not know, but if he did she at the start.·
His Lordship thought the critic-ought to have taken much mora! ism of Mr. Young's evidence care than she did to see that she amounted to this, that he was did not sheer off. She admitted working back from a plece of evid-seeing the glimmer of the green ence which he found after two mov. light of the "Nesttun" somewhat ing vessels had finished their col-about the holat.
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His Lordship did not think that was the truth at all. There were many difficulties in the way of be lieving it—the difficulty of gbfting| the vessels into collision and the Impossibility of believing that the "Dotterel"" was lying... stopped, -- as she wanted to say, for, an appreci able time 150 feet away from the bridge. His Lordship did not think she was ever stopped and lying "In In that way at all;
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