Baker Whitely Coal Co. v. The Pirate

These are claims of various kinds asserted in rem by libels and petitions against the British steamers Pirate and Kenilworth of Glasgow, Scotland, for coal, repairs to machinery and boilers, sails, and provisions furnished to the steamers in the port of Baltimore, and for pilotage services rendered during a period when they were chartered by the owners, residents of Glasgow, to Hart & Co., residents of Baltimore, who were merchants engaged in the importation of foreign fruits into that port. The steamers were chartered in Glasgow to Hart & Co. on *487the eighteenth September, 1885, for two years,…