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Queen of the North Runs Aground
Coming down Grenville Channel the watch would have been looking for a flashing light to port at Sainty Point. It marks a transit to shift course to the east to line up with the distant Point Cumming light at the entrance to McKay Reach. Without this shift, a ship will remain on course for the northern shore of Gil Island.
(Colin Henthorne, captain of the Queen of the North was [http://www.smithsonlaw.ca/?p=729 dismissed from employment]. Four years later in March 2010 fourth officer Karl Lilgert was charged with criminal negligence.)
Colin Henthorne, captain of the Queen of the North, is the author of [http://www.harbourpublishing.com/title/QueenoftheNorthDisaster The Queen of the North Disaster], published in November 2016
<ref>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/captain-of-queen-of-the-north-recounts-ferry-sinking-unanswered-questions-in-newbook/article32831371/</ref> by [http://www.harbourpublishing.com/index.php Harbour Publishing].

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