Evening journal., 1899-05-11
PILOT HAND SUSPENDED.
BOARD OF PORT WARDENS MEET
AND TAKE THIS ACTION.

DENT TO THE TANK STEAMER
HEIRHANA ON DECEMBER 81,
1898 OTHER IMPORTANT BUsI-
MESS TRANSACTED.
lAN a special meeting OF the Board. CT
Port Wardens yesterday afternoOn IN
Philadelphia a resolution was adopted
suspending Pilot Harry Hand for a
penod OF three months, and requiring
him to deposit his license i'm the Of
fee of THE Port Wardens. This action
Twas the result CT am extended inquiry
into the accident which happened Wlhile
the tank steamer Petriana was leaving
Philadelphia en- December 81, 1898.
Hand was plotting the vessel and
when near IllIno's Rock, ii was charg-
cd, the vessel struck ON Schooner Ledge
Rock, breaking OFF three blades OF her
| propeller injuring her bOttOm and
sprnging a leak, which forced her TO
reurn to Philadelphia, and later TO be
repaired ait a cost of nearly $4,000.
The committee on navigation and pill
OTIS, of the Port Wardens, he'd a hear
ing of the case ON january 10. The
lpcs.tiOn OF the vessel when SHE struck
was agreed npon by the captain OF the
vessel, Hand, the pilot and by Pilot
hudson Bennett, who HAD charge OF
he Steamer Tampa, and was following
this Petriana down stream AS the
lefty charts showed that at the point
laimed as the Vocation Of the accident
here should have been plenty or water
he City Board CT Surveys was request.
d to make an examination.
Frank l. Neall, az Peter Wrights
ons, volunteered to make an eXamina.
ion and found at THE place mentioned
an anchored buoy, sunk below this
water. In March George S. Webster
lchlgIf engineer OF the Board of Surveys
reported that on March 10 two broker
propeller blades had been found on tn,
lrcck, 2l0 feet east Of Schooner Ledge
orange line, and later reported that OIL
March % another broken blade haC
been found sixty feet from where th,
other two had been. AN Of THESE haC
been found by a drodge which wa.
working ON the ledge The Commute,
held another meeting on March 81 an,
! secured the services OF John n. Boyt
who reported ON April that to the bes
Cf his 6nUwledge. after careful exami
luhAlbuf AAt 'usdANN IANuN ny Ant NlkAk
were those broken from the damage,
vessel,
A final meeting of the committee wa
held On April 10, at which Pilot Han,
claimed THAT ON THE day OF The ground
l. ing the weather was somewhat misty
|, and lac could not see the ,lay rang
4 marks The whole case was then .'a
= lfarsed 10 the hoard, with The resul
I. CT the final action yesterday.
A rCsOMtiom was also adopted, pro
q lvlding that when a vessel had LEI
y Philadelphia and been damaged 50 TIA
: she was forced to return, III THE acc
y dent was thccwgh no fault odn eel
~ gence of the plot, that he should D
- Paid iCg the distance to and from N
I, lplace CT accident and IL retained durln
n repairs, and afterward Pilots boat /
q lsea, he should be entitled to the usu,
- detention fee, i'm addition to the con
pensation stated for the FORMER servic
This resolution superscdas that of Apr
4 1898. The president was also en-
as powered to request the president Of III
ne Pilots Association that the pilot DO,
e, Philadelphia be kept on station. viii
T. her signals flying whenever wealth.
n permits. This was in response to
is complaint regarding the detent.on
the steamer Waes,and at the Delawa
Breal0water for Tack OF a pilot.