["The Schah Jehan", The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Wednesday 02 July 1862, page 2]
THE SCHAH JEHAN.
The following is the decision of the Court of Enquiry with reference to the School Jehan:
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" 5. That the fact of the captain having stated he abandoned the ship when on the beach, tends to illustrate the gross inattention to the interests of the owners and other exhibited by Captain Allen on this occasion.
" 6. That the scuttling of the ship was unnecessary under the circumstances. Even supposing it to have been requisite (which the Court deny), the modus operandi of the scuttling was performed in a most unseamanlike manner, and appears to have been done without reference to the subsequent raising of the ship.
" 7. That Captain Thomas Allen, by his conduct in reference to the stranding and scuttling of the ship, exhibited want of judgment, absence of nautical skill, and extreme carelessness in the want of protection extended by him to the valuable property entrusted to his charge.
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