THE LOST WARATAH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3115, 11 January 1911, Page 5

THE LOST WARATAH.

PROGRESS OP THE INQUIRY

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Jan. 9. At the Waratah inquiry Sir William White, naval architect, testified that the stability of the curve Avas very good. The complaints that the vessel Avas too high out of the water were not warranted. If the cargo Avere disposed according to the evidence the steamer could not have foundered through instability. The metacentric height Avas satisfactory. THE QUESTION OF STABILITY. -(Received Jan.. 10, 10.50 p.ni.) LONDON, Jan. 10.

At the Waratah inquiry it Avas stated that the steamer’s dead weight amounted to 9204 tons including cargo 6350 tons and 250 tons of spare coals. Sir William White said, that there Avas fallacious to deduce from a ship’s tail’s superstructure and decks. not think that there Avas the slightest foundation for the theory that she Avas so high in the Avater that she Avas dangerously exposed to wind pressure. It Avas nothing -unusual about the Wara-inclinat-ion of two or three l degrees under a slight Avind that- there was no Diet-acentric height. If a A r cssel went over on her side, and! then found a position of quilibrium, it Avas not necessarily unsafe. The passengers avlio thought that the Waratah Avas slow-rolling, had probably only had experience l -of fast rolling vessels. The Lusitania and Mauratania took tAvelve minutes to SAving out to out.