The Florence P. Hall

Bkown, D. J.

The libel in this case was filed by the owners of tlio schooner Plying Pish to recover damages for a collision with the schooner Plorence P. Hall, at sea, at about 10 -p. ar., on April 9, 1874, at a point about 15 to 20 miles west of Montauk Point, and about 6 to 8 miles south of Long Island. The Florence P. Hall was a two-masted schooner, about 115 feet long, and of 245 tons burden, laden with lumber and laths, and bound from St. John, Nova Scotia, to Philadelphia. The Plying Pish was also a two-masted schooner, about 74 feet long, and of 76 tons burden, returning from the South…