I Learned from That: Garbled Communications in Port Lead to Accident

Our ship was coming alongside at Toronto, the last port of call before heading back down the locks into the St Lawrence Seaway and back to UK for Christmas. I had just answered the engine room telegraph and was about to start the engine on half-ahead, when the Chief Engineer appeared, breathless and shouted something at me. The telegraph rang again... This article is about what happened NEXT.