Read the full judgment text of HCAJ 000266/1989 on BabelCite. This HCAJ judgment was delivered on 9 May 1997.
1. On 11th April 1989, the Yin He was crossing the Indian Ocean en route from Hong Kong to Antwerp. At 0358 hours, the chief officer saw smoke. This was coming from between two tiers of containers stacked on the port hatch cover of No. 4 hold and was drifting over the port side. The chief officer noted that there was no alarm from the smoke detector cabinet mounted in the bridge. He called the captain upon whose instructions he sounded the fire alarm. He then ascertained that there was a fire in