THE "KATINGO HADJIPATERA."

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 392

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Willmer, sitting with Captain G. Curteis and Captain C. St. G. Glasson, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Anchored vessel - Fog - Vessels in anchorage preparatory to forming convoy - Vessel under way - Respective duties - Collision between steamships Freden and Katingo Hadjipatera in River St. Lawrence - Vessels due to form part of same convoy - Convoy instructions allotting particular position in convoy and directing vessels to anchor in positions corresponding to order in which vessels should proceed - Timed programme for departure laid down, Katingo Hadjipatera being due to take up position ahead of Freden - Practice for vessels to await executive signal from commodore ship before weighing anchor - Signal not given - Freden at anchor not sounding bell for fog - Risk of hostile submarine attack - Katingo Hadjipatera (anchored wrongly up-river of Freden) moved down river in belief that, the time for departure having passed, she had missed executive signal - Descent of thick fog - Decision to anchor again - Fog signals not sounded - Freden sighted close to - Impact between port bow of Katingo Hadjipatera and starboard side of Freden.