Sailors on the Rocks by Smith Peter C.;Smith Peter C.;

Author:Smith, Peter C.;Smith, Peter C.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Naval
ISBN: 4447589
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2016-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Examiner concluded that:

It is quite clear that the disaster was referable to the culpable error of attempting the entrance at the wrong tide-time. The signal for water was made at 11.30, 50 minutes before high water, and if there was only water enough in the 50 minutes before high water, there would certainly not be more in the 50 minutes after high water; for whenever there is a great inlet like the Manukau the first ebb runs off quicker than the last of the flood runs in. But with only 50 minutes of tide time to be depended on the Orpheus did not even approach the bar ‘til that time had expired, and might have passed it about an hour and ten minutes after high water, when the tide had fallen full half a fathom, and a rougher weather-tide had increased the same, and by so much diminished the depth of water necessary to float the long-legged ship over the shoals. But there is nothing to blame in all this according to the view of the naval Court, and officers are free to follow the example of Commodore Burnett without fear of censure, living or dead.

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