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CLOSE OF THE "EGYPT""" INQUIRY.
COUNSEL'S SPEECHES. Closing speeches by counsel ware heuril on August 3rd at the Board of Trade Inquiry into the loss of the P. and O. liuer Bygpt which was sunk after collision with the French cargo-hoot Seine twenty miles of Ushuat, on May 20th, with the loss of eighty-seven lives (sixteen passengers, and The eventy-one members of the crew) Court's decision will be announced shortly,
Mr. A. T. Bucknil!, for the fiovernment of India and the lascar members of the crew, said that if any scar read the speech of Mr. Cotter (President of the Analgamat ed Marine Workers' Union) he must aske himself whether there was any sense of fair play or gratitude in Britain.It must. hart a lascar to be called a coward after all he did for us in the war, and the only consola- tion he had got was to wait for the publica tion of the report of the inquiry (and to -| see that his fellow-countrymen got a sympathetic and a just judgment. It was admitted that there was great confusion after the collision. The time allowed for the boat drill before the ship left Tilbury was inadequate to ensure effective, super- vision. After all, the native crew were entitled to expect leadership, orders, and
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fully and, stuck to it, while in the absence of leadership they become confused.
Mr. B... Ginsburg, on behalf.of Mr. Brown, the officer on the bridge at the time of the collision, and Mr. French. supernumerary second officer, submitted that the navigation of the ship during the fog before the collision was absolutely proper, and that the junior officers showed a resource which did credit to them and to the service.
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happened after the collision, and great allowacce inust be made, for kunan error of observation, of recol- lection, of inclination. If some of the patives crowded in the boats, did not get. out when ordered, or made dificulties in getting away the boats, what more Hikely than it should be said that they knew no drill, knew no boats to go to had no life. belts, and so forth? The reason why every man did not go to his own boat was that, owing to the list, several boats were lont of action.
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Counsel submitted that it was not want of discipline that caused the disaster, except in so far as possibly some of the natives lost their heads and did not do what they were expected to do. But the most highly organized bodies of men sometimes stampeded. He did not know why the systein should be attacked Byypt was travelling at an immoderate speed, because something happened in the nature having regard to the fog. There were two of a great disaster like a big ship respects in which the sinking of the ship turning turtle. Not one single officer got might have been due to the officers-first, of the blaw; and, Recondly, by leaving the away, except through the water, save Mr. in regard to the speed of the ship at the time Cameron, who was sent away for a special
charge any of the officers individually purpose. Every one of them, except 31. watertight doors open. He way not going Cameron, had to swim for it. The captain at the time of the casualty in regard to the had to be dragged through the water into closing of the bulkhead doors, but be the boat. That was very significant. The thought it was a matter for consideration captain could not be blamed for any action whether the arrangements made beforehand that he took; no complaint was suggested were sufficient for dealing with the question against his navigation." There was nothing in an emergency.
He was obliged to submit to the Court that for which his master's certificate should be there was grave absence of discipline endorsed Notwithstanding every invita instead of discipline, confusion:
noel tion, the owners of the Seine had not that, the company, the Marine Superin- the Dock Superintendent, thought it well to come forward, or let their
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the ship, master or officers come forward, to give undent, evidence before that Court. If the Seine particularly the captain and the chief officer, had been going at a moderte speed she were in their different ways responsible for would probably have missed the Egypt the woot of discipline. Discipline was e8981- altogether. The Egypt was travelling slowly tinl in moments of emergency. That was far and away the most important aspect of the inqui.y. The British mercantile marine had Dealing with the P. and O. Company's a great reputation for discipline in the face red book of instructions to officers, counsel of danger. Its record in the war was The contention that because of said that they might criticize the instruc- superb. tions verbally, but in substance they could sudden danger discipline could not be ex not get a better code. He submitted that pected did il credit to the reputation of our mercantile marine, and was a conten- the rules were properly carried out. They tion that could never be admitted without must leave a good deal to the man on the disastrous
In the results spot rather than put him into one acted or continued to act as he would strait-waistcoat. The reason some of the do at a properly conducted boat drill. There natives had no lifebelts was because they was no attempt to apply the principles of did not go to get them. Fault could not be boat drill to the actuality. There was lack found with the conduct of all, the natives, of system, of organization, a lack of respon- Every effect was made by the officers to sibility, and totally insuficient training. control the natives, but the sudden fear created among those in the engine-room by the inrush of water communicated itself to other native members of the crew, What more could the owners do than ap. point to the Egypt the best of officers, many of them old servants of the company and men who distinguished themselves throughout the war, such as the master, Captain Collyer, and the chief oficer, Mr. Cartwright?
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The question of language was of real portance in the case of ships carrying so farge a proportion of native crews, It was said by several witnesses that the lascars were very good seamen when properly led. He did not doubt the justice of the ea- comium, but it was essential that the white officers and crew should be able to speak their language. If there had been a proper #ystem of boat drill, so that the thing was a reality when it was wanted, there would have been plenty of time for mure boats to get away, and the boats that did get away could have done more speedily and there would have been no confusion. The fact was that whatever panic there was, was the effect and not thec ause of the lack of order and discipline. Did it not look as though
general sense of security, probably the reaction after the war, had caused everyone to forget the need for drill practices!
It any blame were attached to affcers, it was not right or fair that the blame should be left on their shoulders only.
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The Solicitor-General (Sir Leslie Scott) referred to the great history of the P. and O..Company and the high traditions of the British merchant service, particularly of the great passenger lines, and said it was a matter of regret to the Board of Trude that they had to present to the Court a case that the company or its officers had been in any way to blame; bat in certain respects a matter of discipline it was the ultimate it was his duty to present the case. If the authority who was ultimately responsible. fog was so thick that the Seins could not If it were found that there had been a be seen by those on board the Egypt until slackening of discipline in the service it was from the chairman of the board itself she was 150 to 200 feet away, it was that the tightening of the bonds of dis clear that in a fog of that kind helm cipline should come. If the Court found action would not suffice to avoid a callision that the captain or the chief officer was when another ship came into view. He to blame, it should blame more, the system submitted that at the material time the and the final authority responsible for, the
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