Hongkong, 6th March, Before—Hon.. May, president; Captain Thomeett, Harbour-Master; Mr, Belilios, unial justice of the peace; Captain McMurdo, surveyor; and Captain Selkirk, master of the barque Sarah Nicholson, Re loss of British barque Letty Gales, The following is the finding of the Com "We find that the British barque Letty Gales, official number 70,131, of Little Hampton, Sussex, of 472 tons burden, master George Hedgecock, left Amoy on the 8th February, 1877, with a general cargo for London, and that on the 11th, at 2.20 a.m., the vessel struck on the north-east side of the Pratas Shoal in the China Sea and became a total wreck. We find that the state of the weather after the Letty Gales left Amoy prevented the master taking observations, and he was therefore certain his true position. In the log-book, which with all was lost the wreck, the Court cannot give any opinion as to whether the courses steered were correct ones. The position of the ship by dead reckoning at noc of the 10th February was E. by N. 48 mi from the Pratas Shoal, and there being nothing but impressions on the master's mind as to what course the vessel was steered after leaving Amoy, the Court returns the master his certificate. The Court regrets to have to
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