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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930.........

THE CHINA

MAIL.

SHIPPING

SECTION.

IMPROVED OUTLOOK FOR U.S. SHIPYARDS

OUTPUT INCREASED 22 PER CENT IN 1929

PACIFIC

JAPANESE STEAMER master of the Otranto in the diff

HELD AT FAULT

KITANO MARU RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLISION

MANY ORDERS IN HAND

The marked increase in the cult position of having to judge not

amount only when to take action, but also

of tonnage built in the United States shipyards during what that action should be,

The master of the Otranto came 1929 as compared with the previous to the conclusion that the moment year is shown by returns compiled had arrived when it was his duty by Marine Engineering and Ship- Future prospects to take action and he then gave the building Age. NORTH SEA INCIDENT order "starboard 15," followed im also are declared to be more en- mediately by the order "hard-a-couraging than at any time sincs Plans and The Court of Appeal Lord Justice starboard," making one continuous the end of the war. Scrutton, Lord Justice. Lawrence, helm action. At the same time he specifications for fifty-one passenger and Lord Justice Greer, sitting gave an order for two short blasts and cargo vessels for operation in foreign trade have been or Are with Nautical Assessors by a on the whistle. Up till then the majority, Lord Justice Scrutton dis- Kitano Maru was keeping har being prepared, it is stated.

The award of ocean mail con- senting, have allowed the appeal in course and speed and had shown notracts for the routes on which these an action which was brought to signs of keeping out of the way. determine liability for the collision The master of the Otranto decided vessels are to be operated, in ac In the North Sea, off the entrance that the best action he could take cordance with the provisions of the to the Humber, between the Japan to aid in averting collision, was to Jones-White Act, is counted upon ese liner Kitano Maru and the hard-a-starboard, with the object of to facilitate the placing of ordera Orient llner Otranto. The casualty passing ter the stern of the for their construction. Plans also are being developed, it is added, occurred in fine, clear weather on Kitano Maru,

for the construction of at least 120 the evening of August 11, 1928,

Good Seamanship when the Kitano Maru, a vessel of The Judge bad agreed with the other vessels for coastwise, inter- 7,952 tons gross register, manned advice given by the Elder Brethren (coastal, or harbour services. by a crew of 152 hands, was bound that to starboard in such a position 554 merchant vessels of all types During 1929, the returns show, from Middlesbrough to Antwerp could not be right. The assessors with cargo and the Otranto, ahad advised the Court of Appeal were delivered, with a total of These Ogures vessel of 20,032 tons gross register, that in the circumstances hard-a-284,226 gross tons. was on a pleasure cruise from Imatarboarding without decreasing were reported from fifty-four ship- mingham to Copenhagen and other speed was good seamanship. They yards. Forty-eight of the yarda re- North European capitals with 565 were thus faced with opposite ported 215 merchant vessels of REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING passengers and a crew of 369 opinions expressed by the two sets 350,460 gross tons now under con- struction. The output in 1929 re-t FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

hands.. Both vessels suffered con- of assessors.

of 22.3 per siderable damage and the cruise of

The Judge had founded his judg-presents an increase the Otranto had to be abandoned. ment to a great extent on a rule cent, as compared with that of 1928. Six of the crew of the Japanese which he called "the golden rule The tonnage under construction fatally, to take off way." He (the Lord shows an increase of 244 per cent. vessel were injured, one The owners of the Kitano Maru Justice) did not think it was right as compared with that on order Sixty-three claimed to recover the damage to for the Court to lay down a rule at the end of 1928. their vessel and the Orient Line prescribing the particular action to yards were active during the year, counter-claimed for the damage to be taken by the stand-on ship when as compared with forty-four in the Otranto.

she found herself in the predica-1928, fifty-one in 1927, and forty- ment indicated. The master of the one in 1928. The forty-eight yards stand-on ship should be free to reporting orders on hand compare exercise his best judgment with re-with thirty-three last year and gard to the appropriate action to be forty-three two years ago. taken, and the only requirement was that the action should be such as might reasonably be taken by a competent navigator.

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Mr. Justice Hill held that both vessels had taken helm action which at the time it was taken was wrong, and that both had failed to take engine action in due time. Ac cordingly he pronounced both ships in fault in equal degrees. The owners of the Otranto appealed.

Mr. A. T. Miller, K.C., and Mr.

+

In all the circumstances he pre-

Mora.

arc

cent. are

Contracts in Kand

Of the vessels delivered in the past year 21.1 per cent. were pro- pelled by steam machinery. 15.7 per cent.. consisted of motorships, and the remaining 57.2 per cent, were H. C. S. Dumas appeared for theferred the opinion of the assessora barges and other non-propelled craft. Of the vessels now under Otranto; Mr. C. R. Dunlop. K.C., of the Court of Appeal to that of SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta, and Mr. R. F. Hayward appeared to the assessors in the Court below. construction 67.8 per cent.

If there were any real doubt whe- steamships, 21.8 per for the Kitano Maru.

Lord Justice Scruttos, in the ther the action taken by the Otranto motorships, while barges and non- course of a dissenting judgment, was negligent or not, the finding of propelled craft represent 10.4 per said that, when the Otranto star the Court ought to be that the cent. The Atlantic Coast and Gulf boarded, the Kitano Maru could inKitano Mary had not discharged yards are handling 82 per cent. of under construc- fact have avoided the collision by the onus of proof which rested on the tonnage now her own action and, therefore, the her and that, therefore, the whole tion; the Great Lakes yards, 5.6 per cent.; the Western. River yards, 6,8 time had not come

the loss fell on her. when Otranto starboarded, the Kitano The appeal would be allowed and per cent.; and the West Coast, 6.6 Maru could in fact have avoided the judgment varied by pronounc- per cent. the collision by her own action and, ing that the collision was solely therefore, the time had not come caused by the fault of the Kitano Contracts for new construction when the Otranto was justified

placed during the year represent a under the rules and regulations for Lord Justice Greer read a judg-wide variety of work, and exceed in avoiding collisions at sea in department agreeing with Lord Justice magnitude the contracts on hand ing from the rule enjoining her to Lawrence in allowing the appeal at any time since the war. with Mr. Justice Hill in finding keep course and speed. He agreed

that the Otranto was to blame in' starboarding. Mr. Justice Hill had found both vessels equally to blame for the collision. He (Lord Justice Scrutton) was unable to alter that apportionment of the blame. If the matter had rested with him he would have thought that the ap- peal should be diamissed, but as the majority of the Court thought otherwise the order would be in accordance with their judgments. Lord Justice Lawrence's View Lord Justice Lawrence, in the A tug from Fremantle, equip- course of his judgment, said that ped with fire-fighting apparatus, the Judge in the Court below had has gone to assist her-Reuter. acquitted the Otranto of any breath

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The first materiaf-question was whether the Judge was right in holding that the time had соде when the Otranto was called on to depart from her prima facie duty of keeping her course and speed and to take action to avoid colli- sion. Some latitude must be allow ed to the master of the stand-on

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The Onus of Proef There: remained the question whether the Judge, was right In condemning the Ofranto, when the time for action had arrived, on the around that her master exhibited a want of reasonable care and skill. The onus of proving that the Fac

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