Legal Opinion
The Sandringham
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided January 31, 1882PublishedCited by 33 opinions
Ii Admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, D. J.
On the evening of Friday, November 5, 1880, the iron steam-ship, Sandringham, of Glasgow, 1,159 tons, McKay, master, at about 7 p. in. was beached some three-quarters of a mile south of Cape Henry light-house. She was loaded with 3,000 bales of compressed cotton, and -a complement of flour and manganese. She had cleared at Galveston, and was bound for Liverpool. She had first struck on the outer reef or sand-bar which stretches along, and parallel with, and about 300 yards distant from, the shore; but, passing over that, she then struek the main shore at a point some 50 or 75…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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3Cited by33 opinions
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