The Archive · 1928

Coroner's Seathing Remarks

Feb, 28.

Returning a verdict of "death by drowning" at the inquest on the seaman from the Ttalian ste. Aleantant, whose body: was washed up near Dungeness, the Coroner that he failed to see why something hho not been done on the ship to eave lives, declaring should have thought a lof others and less of themselves."

The Alcantara, it may be recalled, sank off Dungeness in a for follow ing a collision with the Soviet cadet ship Tovarisch. Of the crew of 24 jonly one person was saved—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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