Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
As this old post is on collissions and I have somewhere or other put a post about one I was on in 1962 in the river Plate . Does anyone and if anyone knows if the collission between the Dutch Passenger ship the ‘ Ruys’ , and the British ship Exmoor ever reached the media ? As far as I am aware the enquiry was held in BA which I was not called upon to attend which I found hard to believe at the time , not that I was complaining , but the 3 or 4 hours leading up to it I was the bridge watch keeper . 10 miniutes after leaving the bridge the collission occurred . The damage was substantial and the insurance I was led to believe was settled by the NE shipowners Association. There was no loss of life. The master himself must have kept me away from the enquiry. Just maybe he may of thought I might say too much ? It would be intereresting although 60 years ago to know if this mini disaster ever reached any publicity .Graham if your reading this your the one most likely to be sitting on it, if there ever was some reporter got a distorted view of it. Cheers JS