The Roanoke

DOOLING, District Judge.

On April 10, 1913, the steamer Roanoke, bound from San Pedro to San Francisco, with 93 passengers and a cargo of freight, lost her propeller when in the neighborhood of Point Arguello. She drifted inshore from 10:05 a. m. until 11:10 a. m., when the anchor was dropped in 14% fathoms of water, at a point in the neighborhood of 1% miles south by east of Point Arguello. There was no wind, and the sea was calm, with a light swell from the west. During the time that she remained so anchored—that is, until about 5:20 p. m.—she was enveloped in a dense fog, and not more than…