"You have also an emergency full-speed astern?" asked Mr. G. St. C. Pilcher, K.C., for the Malaya.
"Emergency full-speed astern gives approximately twice the power to the engines," Capt, Buckley explained.
Mr. Pilcher: Have you made a test with that?—I should not like to.
Ordinary -full-speed astern, he added, had regard to the safety of the engines.
Capt. Buckley continued that, in the fog, visibility was 400 to 600 yards. A siren, apparently a long way off, was heard, and he ordered the engines to be stopped. Two or three more signals were heard.
The Malaya's engines were stopped for about four minutes: her speed dropped to 3 or 4 knots, and she was losing steerage way. In order to recover this he ordered half-speed ahead.
Capt, Buckley mentioned that for about a minute the Malaya's siren kept blowing, having become stuck open,
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