Ship Firms
Zim Probe Exonerates Shalom Crew; Blame Shifted Bet ween
that the Shalom met fog only
A statement blaming the Stolt lom's radar was scanned regularly
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A special
inquiry commission set up by the Dagali as the sole cause for the and that when fog suddenly en-
Zim-Israel Nagivation Co. to probe crash was made by Eugene P. veloped the liner, Capt. Avner
the collision off the New Jersey Gilligan, an admiralty lawyer, in Freudenberg reduced speed and
coast in November between the SS a report for the Zim Lines. Leiv ordered fog signals. When a fog
Shalom and the Norwegian tanker A. Arntzen, president of the Scan- signal was heard by the Shalom,
Stott Dagali, reported here Sunday dinavian Marine Claims Office, the report continued, the Shalom's
that the conduct of the Shalom's Inc., speaking for John P. Pedersen engines were stopped.
The report also denied that
crew before and during the colli- and Co.. owners of the Stolt Dagali,
Capt. Freudenberg had sent out
issued a statement in reply to the
sion was blameless.
an erroneous position signal 15
The commission said that every report by Gilligan.
miles off his actual position im-
Gilligan charged that the Stolt
crew member performed his duties
mediately after the collision. The
according to rules and instructions Dagali was traveling at "immod-
report asserted that if the tanker
and that no charge can be„brought erate" speed through sudden fog,
had not altered position, the two
failed to heed a fog signal from the
against them.
ships would not have collided.
Shalom, and altered course in vio-
A $2,000,000 claim for dam-
Arntzen in his reply called the
lation of international navigation
ages was to be filed by Zim
Gilligan report "patently untrue"
rules.
Lines against the owners of the
He also asserted that the Sha- and asserted that the statement
Stolt Dagali.
90
seconds before the crash was "a
futile attempt to justify the Sha-
lom's admitted speed of more than
20 knots in dense fog."
He asserted that the tanker had
been moving at "dead slow ahead"
for more than 20 minutes before
the crash and that its engines had
been shut off as soon as the Sha-
lom's fog signals were heard. He
said that the tanker was "prac-
tically dead in the water when the
Shalom, at top speed, knifed into
her and cut her in two."
Stock Dividend Declared
NEW YORK—Directors of PEC
Israel Economic Corp. declared a
5 per cent stock dividend for the
year 1964, payable on Feb. 15 to
stockholders of record as of Jan. 7.
A similar dividend was paid for
each of the two preceding years.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14---Friday, January 8, 1965
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