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The committee's recommendations included better enforcement of regulations regarding passenger transport, and that only authorised boats should be allowed to carry passengers. It also stated that no boats should be allowed to carry more passengers than their authorised capacity. One of the committee
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Minister also set up two committees, one to raise funds for the families of the victims, and another to examine the report of Gouder's inquiry and to make recommendations on what action needs to be taken. The latter was set up after there were anonymous allegations criticizing the police's
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instead of at the usual berthing place at Marfa. This journey lasted longer than the usual route, and disembarkation at St. Paul's Bay was also slower, so the next scheduled crossing from Marfa of 16:30 was cancelled. However, some passengers who had intended to board this ferry had already departed
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crewed by Salvu Refalo and Karmnu Grima was sent, and all 25 stranded passengers (24 men and 1 woman) boarded the boat. The number of people on the boat was higher than expected, and despite Refalo and Grima's proposal to make two trips, the passengers insisted on making a single crossing.
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A policeman who was among the stranded passengers phoned his superiors in Gozo, who then informed
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actions surrounding the accident. On 12 December 1949, this committee stated that Gouder's inquiry was adequate, the police were not at fault, and there was no need for further inquiries.
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capsized. One of the passengers, Karmnu Attard, managed to swim to shore and went to the village of Qala to call the police at Mġarr, informing the authorities about the accident.
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member Leli
Camilleri, invited them to pray the rosary. At around 20:00, when the boat was about 50 metres (160 ft) away from the shore near an area known as
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Giovanni Gouder conducted an inquiry to determine what caused the accident. Giuseppe Caruana, the technical expert appointed by Gouder, found that the
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members, Henry Jones, disagreed with the committee's findings and made a separate report demanding to know why the 16:30 ferry crossing had been cancelled.
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489:"64th anniversary of Gozo sea tragedy remembered today"
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was discovered and it was recovered from the seabed.
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16:Capsizing of a fishing boat near Malta
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462:"The 1948 Ħondoq ir-Rummien tragedy"
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165:occurred on 30 October 1948 when a
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135:Overloading
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595:Shipwrecks
422:References
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187:Background
159:1948 Gozo
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281:HMS
126:Capsizing
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374:Inquiry
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960:Arleux
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684:Soegio
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626:Oriana
351:, and
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148:Deaths
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196:Luzzu
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132:Cause
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38:luzzu
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