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Wednesday, January 11, 1939 @ 0900
DATE is correct but ACTUAL TIME is not known - any TIME SHOWN is our estimate for guidance only 		AQUITANIA (1914-1919 Armed Merchant Cruiser then Troopship then Hospital Ship then Troopship: 1919 -1939 Returned to Cunard Line as Passenger Liner: 1939-1948 Troopship: 1950 Scrapped Own Page

Five men injured in a lifeboat drill on Cunard White Star passenger liner AQUITANIA at Southampton
Ship's locationOcean Dock, Southampton, U,K,Port of RegistryLiverpool (England, UK)
Gross Tonnage45,647

 

   Five men were injured when a motor-launch lifeboat, being lowered from the Cunard White Star passenger liner AQUITANIA in a lifeboat drill, fell 50 feet to the water.

   The accident happened in the Ocean Dock, Southampton, when a party of 10 men were lowering the motor launch from the boat deck when the rope falls at one end snapped.

   For a moment the launch hung suspended in mid-air, and then the falls at the other end broke under the strain and the launch, with two men aboard, plunged 50 feet to the water.

   The two men in the launch narrowly escaped drowning and were taken to Hospital suffering from shock.   Three other men were struck by the flying falls.   All of the men came from Southampton.