On a foggy night last June the Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. rammed, exploded and sent to the bottom of Massachusetts Bay the gasoline tanker Pinthis (TIME, June 23). Fire and water killed 50, including all hands on the Pinthis. Wild tales by semi-hysterical passengers landed in Boston prompted the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service to file four charges against Captain Archibald H. Brooks, master of the Fairfax: 1) excessive speed in a fog; 2) violation of pilot rules; 3) unskillfulness; 4) negligence. His trial by a Federal board of...
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