§ MR. MACDONALDasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether he is aware that the schooner "Magie" or "Maggie," recently arrived at Bristol, has neither deck line nor lead line painted upon her, and that, on her re-cent voyage from Newfoundland, her captain was washed overboard and drowned?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYI am informed, Sir, of the schooner Maggie, of 147 tons, having recently arrived at Bristol from Newfoundland, with neither deck-line nor load-line marked on her sides. She had a cargo of fish and oil. I learn from the Casualty Return that during very rough weather on the voyage her captain was washed overboard. The acting captain states that he did not know the law. As she was never entered outwards from the United Kingdom she was not bound by the Act of 1876 to have any lead-line. She comes within the deck-line section as a British ship, and we are calling the attention of the Colonial Governments to this point; but as she was a single deck ship this mark was of no consequence in this case. I have just written for, and shall have all particulars concerning this ship tomorrow.