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mast-head light following us; but I didn't say she would either be in that night, or at the bottom. I thought I saw her mast head light following us from the forecastle. When I came up from below I came fast to the break of the forecastle, and looked over the bulwarks. The other vessel was just abreast of the bridge, and I should say, about half a ship's length off from where I was standing. When I last looked out I saw only a light, not a ship. I was not two minutes on deck the first time I came up. I ran down, as I feared the topmast might fall or something. I didn't know what might come down. I did not see any break in the other vessel. I saw a light but I did not know whether it was a port, or a gun port, or what. I thought it was a large port, but had not much time to look. I did see through the light, but I saw no person or persons behind the light I did not see any table. I swear that I saw nothing to evidence that the other vessel was damaged. I did not hear her whistle blow. I heard no shout from the other vessel. I did not hear the report of any gan. I did not see the flash from any gun. I have not stated to any one in Yo- kobama that I saw the flash of any gun. I have been ask. ed the question and answered "no." After I had gone below, I suppose it was from seven to ten minutes before I came on deck again. When I came on deck I saw what I thought was the mast head light of the other vessel; it might have been a mile or a mile and a half off, but I cannot tell.
To Mr. BARNARDI have never been a sailor, always a steward. I know there was a lighthouse, I can't say if the light I saw came from the light-house, I went on shore about a quarter to eight I think. I got back again about 11 P.M. I didn't return immediately, as I had to wait for the officer with whom I had come on shore. I went to the Post office with the third officer. I was waiting at the Post office about twenty minutes or half an hour. We were waiting some time on the Band to get carts to take the mail away. I was about fifteen minutes at the hotel and had one glass of brandy and water. I should think I was quite sober when I arrived on board the Bombay. I swear I was not half tight. I went on board to report s message from Mr. Dalziel to the chief officer. I told the chief officer that Mr. Dalziel wanted the Captain to take the ship to the French buoy the first thing in the morning. I am possess- ed of no nautical knowledge.
TO THE COURT.-My cabin is on the lower deck forward. I mean the main deck, it is on the starboard side; it has a port, I cannot look out of that port was obliged to keep it closed all night; saw nothing through that port. I was in my cabin at the time of the collision. I felt a shock and thought we had gone on shore; that's why I ran on deck. I then went up the fore companion, that is before the bridge, just at the break of the forecastle. I could not hear any thing that was said on the bridge as I went up the com- panion I could hear no cry, nor hail, nor could I hear a steam whistle going. The light I saw after coming on deck the second time was right astern. No one was stand-
ing by me when I saw the other vessel the first time: the carpenter and gunner were on the forecastle when I went up there. The carpenter said he had seen some one lifted away from a table inside where the light was; he said "he thought she was hard struck," or words to that effect. We had not passed the lightship when the carpenter made those remarks to me. The carpenter's name is Murray. Don't remember how the conversation with the carpenter commenced. I did not report that conversation to the Cap- tain or to any officer. I did not report it at the P. & D. office, on shore. At the time I went on deck the second time, I don't know if our engines were going or not, Soon after this I received ordere from the chief officer to go down below to the store room; I went to the store room. The water was running into the store room fast. I didn't see the well sounded. The water was coming in at the bows a good body of water was coming in as large as the stream from a fire engine hose. The carpenter said he thought he saw some one being removed from a table or some- thing." I don't remember having mentioned anything about this conversation at the International, or at any other place. I looked over the starboard bulwarks. I don't know what distance the two vessels were apart when I went on deck the first time. It took me about two seconds to run on deck. My cabin is about seven or eight yards from the ladder.
(Signed)
E. NEWMAN,
Stoward in charge. JOHN MURRAY, sworn, states:-I am carpenter of the steamship Bombay I was walking on the forward part of the spar deck, just before the collision took place. I sup- pose I could see a mile or two off. It was blowing pretty fresh. I heard an order given to port or starboard the helm; I don't know which. I felt a very slight shock. After the collision I was ordered to go and sound the well. Ireport- ed to the chief officer that there were three inches of water in the second forward compartment. I didn't at the time re- port what water was in the forward compartment, as it was used as a storeroom and locked up. I did examine the fore compartment afterwards. When we got there I heard the water coming in, but could not see it for stores. It may have been five or eight minutes after the collision that I examined the fore compartment. The deck was overflooded
with water, but the lower compartment was not then filled. I paid no attention to whether the engines were going then. I know the engines had been stopped, but I cannot say for bow long they were stopped. The stores were removed from the fore compartment, when we found that the water was coming in. Could not say with what force the water was coming in. The fore compartment was lined with wood, one and three-quarter inches or two inches thick. We cut away the wood to see if there was any leak besides the one we had found out. We had discovered one leak about two feet under the water line. One of the plates was split. The crack was ten inches to a foot in length. I put soine wed- gas into the crack, but they were forced out by the ship going through the water. There was nothing in the hole before I attempted to wedge it up. The thickness of the plate which was cracked was about 3/16ths of an inch. I was not on deck after this, only when the ship stopped. I was busily engaged below. There is only one carpenter aboard the ship. At the time of the collision, I was a little abaft the bridge on the starboard side, opposite to the en- gine room. One of the stewards was there, but I cannot say whether he stopped there. It was the bedroom steward, I was not standing looking at the ship with the chief stew. ard at the time of the collision. Immediately after the collision, I saw a ship under sail, then I saw her sheer alongside of us, and go past us. I saw her propeller, and it was going round, but I don't know whether astern or ahead. I saw damage had been done to the other ship but I could not tell to what extent. She appeared to be damaged about the starboard quarter. She was damaged above the water line, but I cannot say whether she was damaged below the line. I saw two men lift another man, and hand him away. I had some conversation about this on the forecastle, after- wards just for a minute. I did not report the circumstance to the Captain or to any officer. It was immediately after that that I was called by the chief officer to go below. After that I remained below until the ship was off the light-ship. The chief officer went below with me part of the time. I don't recollect that I had said anything to the chief officer of what I had seen. When abreast of the light-ship, there were over nine feet of water in the fore compartment. I considered she was making water fast. We had buckets The sluice valre was up, but under way at the time. choked after the collision. I generally oil the sluice valve once a week and sometimes twice a week. The second sluice valve had been worked two days before the collision. I had never worked the first.
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To Mr. DE LONG.---I could give no idea of what time elapsed between the collision and the time I got the store- room door opened. I think the ship was under way at the time, but I really cannot say. When I got into the first com- partinent we could not sound the wells as it was full of stores. We could not sound the foremost compartment till about 8 or 10 minutes after the collision, but I am only guessing that. When we first sounded, I think there were about five feet of water in the first compartment. That had increased to about 9 feet when we got up to the light-ship, and we were baling the ship out all the time. When abreast of the light-ship, the water in the second compartment had in- creased to about 18 inches. This water in the second com. partment came from the first compartment, I think. sluice was up at the time, and the sluice communicates between the two compartments. The width of the crack below the water line may have been one-eighth of an inch or more. Before we reached the light-ship, we had no pumps going. I do not think there was any water coming through the hole where the plank went through the stem. There was a plank through the stem. It is not there now.
I ex. amined it before it was taken out. The diameter of this plank was 12 to 14 inches. It came from the port side. The hole which it made was a sort of oblong. It passed through an iron plate on the port side, then through a part of the main deck waterways, and through the plate on the other side; it bulged the iron out on the other side and from outside on the starboard bow burst it so that we could see a part of the end of it The thickness of the
plates is about 5/15the of an inch, This spar may have penetrated say two or three inches of wood. The waterways connect abaft the stem. The timber penetra. ted abaft the stem. I was about six feet from the ship's rail on the starboard side, when the ship's struck. I heard a person on board the other ship, just after the collision, sing out either "ship ahoy" or "steamer ahoy." That's all I heard and an officer from the Bombay answered. Did not hear any reply to the Bombay's answering hail. I did not hear her steam whistle. Did not hear any gun fire. I did not see the flash of any gun. I did see a break made into the Oneida by the Bombay; I think it was a little abaft the mizen mast, near her starboard quarter. When she struck, I could not see if the other vessel had a wheel house; but I saw a part fall over to one side; but I could not say what it was. I saw something that the Bombay had knocked away go over toward the port side. It was on the deck. I cannot say if it fell overboard or not. It looked I saw Jike a wheel house or something of that sort. at this point a light. I saw three men. I saw two men handing one man toward the fore part of the ship. I saw no more persons. I saw a light through table, this hole, which appeared to me to fall on a
I did n't see anything on the table, as if there was a meal spread, or anything of that kind.
I saw the throe men on one of the docks. If she had a poop deck they must have been on the spar deck,
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The third man was being supported along by a man on either side of him. I could see a lamp, but whether it was hanging above, or on the table, I cannot say. I saw that lamp, I think, through the hole which had been made by the collision. I did not see the wheel of the vessel. I saw what I thought to be a table; but no other furniture. The light and the table were on the same deck on which I saw the man being supported. I was about 20 fest abaft the bridge of the Bombay when I saw this. I don't know if any one else saw it. There was a party looking over the side with me, but I cannot say whether he saw it or not. That person was one of the stewards. I think his name is Smith, No one else was standing by or near me. quite sure that I made no mention of this to the first officer. mentioned it to the chief steward, who was standing one of a group on the spar deck. I know there were three or four in a group, but I could not say whether the second class passenger was there or not. I did not go on shore that night after anchoring. The leak I referred to was on the port side of the ship. I found a gaff and part of a sail, and a spanker boom hanging over the side belonging to the other vessel. I did not see any boat on the ship.
To Mr. BARNARD.-I did not report what I had seen to the Captain or any officer. It was not my duty to do so, I was not on the spar deck more than three or four seconds. The remarks were made after sounding the second compart- ment, and before sounding the first, before we got to the light-ship. I don't know if the engine roon pumps were going before the water rose to a height of 18 inches in the second compartment.
TO THE COURT-Frora two to three inches is the usual amount of water in the second compartment. I did not examine the bulkhead in the second compartment. Could not get at it, as it was full of coals. After that I came on to the spar deck. It was then I had the conversation with the steward. I think the 18 inches in the second compart- ment was owing in a measure to the sluice valve being open. If I had considered our ship in danger I should have gone direct to the Captain and reported it. It would have been my duty to have done so. The chief officer was there when I found the timber through her bows; and he report ed it to the Captain. If the chief officer had been present I should have reported to him, and not to the Captain, bad I thought the ship was in danger. The body I saw falling over to port might have been a boat, and it might have been a deck house. As I stood, the light from the other ship was abreast of me, about 20 or 30 yards from me. At that time we were sheering off to port and her stern and quarter were nearly ubeam.
I saw the Oncida's screw after I had seen the light. I did not see her wheel, Had the wheel been under the poop I could not have seen it. It was too dark to have seen it had it been on the poop. Her screw was going round when I saw it after the collision. I did not see any part of the Oneida as it were cut off and floating away. I did not see any spars or picces of wreck Boating between the two vessels. I am unable to say ou what deck it was I saw the table and the light-- whether it was between the poop and the spar deck, or between the spar deck and the water line. I have described what I saw through the hole, but I cannot give any idea as to the size or shape of the hole. I was looking at the hole from a slanting position, and saw, I should say, the whole of the bodies of the three men. I did not think the other vessel was cut down to the water's edge. From what I saw I did not think there was any danger of her sinking, I saw her on our Port bow just a minute before the collision. I didn't see her long after the collision, as she went away past us with all her sails set. I could not tell whether she was drifting past us, or whether she was being steered. I think we took the Oneida a little on our starboard bow. We struck her from her bows and towards her stern. I could not see the amount of injury we had done her as it was dark, and I could not see on her deck. I saw the body falling towards the port side of the ship, before I saw the light. It did not appear to me that the light issued from where this body was moved. I was walking and about six feet from the rails of the Bombay at the time of the collisi. on. The shock was so slight that I hardly felt it. I did not perceive any recoil, but just felt a slight shock after the collision. The vessels were clear of each other at once. I think it was pieces of plank of somekind in the stem. One piece was pitch pine, and the other pitch or red pine, I should say red pine. It was about 16 inches long. Thore was some oakum and cotton about it. I saw a six or seven inch spike in it. I didn't see any iron bolts in it. I at no time made a report to the Captain or any officer of the ship that the Bombay was in danger. Had I thought the Oneida was in danger, I should not have thought it my duty to re- port it not while all the officers were looking at it-not while all the officers were on daty, and could see the ship as much as I did. I do not know of any reason to provent a person standing on the bridge from seeing everything as I did. I was standing about eight feet lower than the level
of the bridge. I think I was a little higher than the level of the fracture in the other vessel.
(Signed)
Adjourned till 2 r.M.
JOHN MURRAY.
Proceedings resumed at two P.M. DAVID RENNIE, sworn, states: I am chief engineer of the Bombay. The second engineer was on duty at the time of the collision. I was in the engine room. 1 remember the collision. The collision felt to me more like a glide than anything. I was stepping into the engine room at the time the telegraph bell sounded. conveyed by the bell was "Stop." The telegraph bell The order
conveyed no further order until go ahead should say about three minutes bad elapsed from the again. I
say how long the steamer was stopped, as I did not take first order being given till I felt the collision. I cannot the time. The engine room's bilge pumps are always work- ing, and were working at that time--you could not dis- connect the pumps; if the engines are going the pumps must necessarily be in motion at the same time. The pump might miss drawing the water from a compartment of the ship for a little time. I have no reason to know that the pumps missed drawing the water. During the time there were 18 inches in the second compartment. There are four engine room bilge pumps on board, each about 8 inches in diameter.
To Mr. DE LONG---The Bombay is divided into compart ments. The puraps are connected with the fore hold, main hold, engine rooni and stoke hole. The forward hold is not connected with the pumpa. The second compartment where the 18 inches of water were is connected with the pump. There are seven bulk heads in the ship, and seven compartments, but they don't extend to the main deck. The compartments are named the first, and one right hebind that, of wood, the fore hold, the coal bun- ker, the stoke hole, the engine room, the main hold and the magazine. The pumps are always going; but I don't know whether they were drawing water after the collision. I keep an engineer's log. In that log it is my duty to enter the time at which the engines are stopped, and at which they go on again. It is noted at about the time the engines were stopped on the occasion of the collision; but the exact time was not taken. The second engineer noted the time. It was noted as soon as his watch had expired. His watch expired at 8 o'clock. The collision took place between f the anchorage. We have a state in the engine room from I think his watch expired after we reached which the log is made up. I did n't see the slate but I saw the book that was made up from the slate. I cannot tell whether the entry in the book corresponded with that on the slate. I have not got that record with me. We have a making about 26 revolutious, equalling 8 to 8 knots, counter to shew the number of revolutions.
She was before the order to stop was given. Received no order to "reverse the engines." At the moment of the col- lision, I think we were going perhaps about 6 or 63 knots. When the collision took place, I was putting in the starting bor of the engine. The bar was in at the moment of the shock. It had no effect on me at all--did not even stagger
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TO THE COURT.-The engines were stopped the instant the order was given. Had I been ordered to "reverse," it would have taken me, I should say, three minutes. I should have been as long as that, as I should have had to get the men to "stand by." They were not ready. Had they been ready, it would have taken from 30 seconds to a minute. I made up the log myself from the rough book. It was made up on the night on which we anchored in Yokohama.
(Signed)
DAVID C. RENNIE.
WILLIAM HERBERT, Sworn, states: I am gunner on board the steamship Bombay. I was on duty at the time of the collision. I was on the forecastle. I saw the other ship when she was about a mile off. I think I saw all her
lights-the masthead and two side lights. She was a little on our port bow coming towards us. I could not at first see whether she was under sail or steam; but when she got closer, I saw she was under sail. I could not tell she was under steam before she got clear of us. I saw her screw working when she was abreast of our funnel after the col- lision had taken place. The only light I lost sight of was the red light. I watched the other vessel until about one or two minutes before we struck, I had time to reach the poop. I went to the poop, in order to get out of the way of the collision. I knew there was to be one. The collision was very slight where I was. The seacannie was the only one on the bow on the look out that I know of. I think he stopped there during the collision. At the time of the col- lision I was on the top of the poop ladder. I saw the other vessel going by us from the top of the poop ladder. She passed pretty quickly. I did not see her smoke stack. I saw her sails, and her screw going round. saw a light on board of hor. I cannot say where
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the light came from. I cannot describe the light. I saw a hole in the ship's side. It was a breach. I could not tell if it was a large hole. I only saw one person ou board the other ship. I don't know whether sitting or leaning--
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