From The Cork Examiner, 7 June 1879 - BOARD OF TRADE ENQUIRY. A Board of Trade inquiry was concluded at Belfast yesterday, into the stranding of the screw steamer Augusta, of Newcastle, Captain Baker, at Burial Island, county Down, on the 17th of May. The steamer left Glasgow for Venice with coal on the 16th, and struck shortly after midnight, but was floated off at 6 o'clock the same morning and proceeded to Belfast for repairs. The judge. Mr. O'Donnell, R.M., who was assisted by Captain Holt and Captain Castles, nautical assessors, severely censured the captain for not taking the lead after sighting Copelards, but returned his certificate owing to his previous good character and successful seamanship. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Irish Maritime News Acton, Mass. | http://immigrantships.net/newsarticles/newsarticles.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -