merican yachtsman
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loses in court
American yachtsman and self tyled adventurer Lee Quinn ost a damages claim of $BO,OOO rom Associated Steamships Pty. ,td., owner of the freigher Voomera, in a judgment in the Admiralty Court in Sydney in arly August.
Mr. Quinn sued the company fter the Woomera cut in two lis auxiliary ketch Neophyte in l spectacular accident off Sydney leads three years ago. Three ;irls aboard the Neophyte, ennifer Verplak, Barbara Sodt, if Hawaii, and Helena Ander on, of Canberra, suported Mr.
Quinn’s claim.
Mr. Justice MacFarlan found hat the Neophyte was at fault »y not keeping a proper lookout, le said Miss Anderson was at he tiller and had not seen the Voomera until seconds before he collision.