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Graciana - a general history

Extract from the Northern Daily Mail, April 15th, 1919: 
“Local Steamer in Collision. Claim and Counter-claim in the High Court. 
In the Admiralty High Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Roche heard a claim and counter-claim arising out of a collision between the steamship Graciana of West Hartlepool [owned by Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd.], and the steamship Tiara of Newcastle [owned by Hall Brothers Steamship Co. Ltd.], in the River Plate, in the early morning of June 3 last.

The plaintiffs – the owners of the West Hartlepool vessel – alleged that the other vessel entered the buoyed channel, wrongly failed to pass port –to-port, and acted contrary to her whistle signal. The Graciana, on the other hand, was said to have been on the wrong side of the channel and to have taken wrong helm action.

His Lordship found the Tiara alone to blame for her adoption of and adherence to starboard helm. He did not think the omission to signal made much difference.”

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