5 OCTOBER 1901, Page 3

The inquest held at Grimsby on the six men drowned

by the foundering of the 'Cobra' was concluded on Thursday. The evidence of the lightship-keeper, of the skipper of the herring-boat who picked up the bodies, and of the divers having established the fact that the 'Cobra' sank in the fair- way of navigation, and that of the survivors having shown that no violent shock was felt when the ship broke in two, the jury found that the men were drowned through the 'Cobra' buckling up and breaking in two amidships, without expressing any opinion as to what caused this collapse.