Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1964Vol. 35, No. 6

Ship Overloaded

p. 16 · Read in the full issue

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Wrecked Islands Ship Overloaded

A SHIP that was wrecked on a reef in the Solomons last De cember was carrying 59 people when she was licensed to carry only 22.

This was revealed in the Central District Magistrate’s Court in Honiara in May when the former bosun of the ship, the MV Fauambu- Twomey, pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying more people on her last voyage than her licence permitted.

The court was told that after the Fauambu-Twomey grounded on a reef in Sealark Channel, off Guadal canal, on December 12, it was estab lished that she had been carrying 51 passengers and a crew of eight.

The accused was convicted and ordered to pay a fine of £3O, in de fault two months’ imprisonment.

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