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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 3

At the annual meeting of the Mercantile Marine Service Association at Liverpool Captain Corkhill, in referring to the action of underwriters in objecting to captains who had met with an accident, said that it was his opinion that if a man got into an accident by an error of judgment, or something of that description, he ought not to be condemned for it, for it was not proof that he would do the same again. A shipmaster’s responsibilities were, he said, being continually added to, until, at the present time, they really did not know w'here they stood. The latest responsibility proposed was to make the master responsible for the actions of a pilot. Captain Corkhill thought that to make the master responsible. by law for the action of a pilot over pilotage waters in every part of the globe was nonsensical. How, he asked, could they expect a master to know more about the approaches to a river than the man who had local knowledge ? In referring to the new vision test for officers, he contended that the test was a mistake, and ought not to be allowed to pass. - , The death has occurred at Lowestoft of Robert Hook, one- of the best-known Ifieboat heroes of the east coast. He was coxswain of the Lowestoft lifeboat for thirty years, and during: his career assisted to save more than 600 lives.