THE "HALLANGER."

(1943) 77 Ll L Rep 510

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Captain W. R. Chaplin and Captain C. St. George Glasson, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Convoy - Alteration of course - Collision in daylight between steamship Shuna and motor vessel Hallanger in North Sea-Hallanger at head of port column; Shuna, acting as commodore ship, at head of column to starboard of Hallanger-Convoy ordered by Shuna to alter 53 deg. to port-Port helm action taken by both Shuna and Hallanger- Impact between starboard side of Hallanger and port side of Shuna - Action tried without witnesses-Evidence given before examiner after considerable lapse of time - Contemporaneous records - Criticism of Shuna's scrap log.