The Fanwood

On the thirtieth of December, 1884, between 11 and 12 o’clock in the forenoon, as the ferry-boat Fanwood was approaching her slip at the Central Eailroad, New Jersey, she came in collision with the libelant’s schooner Mediator, in tow of the tug Washburn, upon a hawser about 80 feet in length. Either from the rebound of the blow, or from the forward motion of the ferry-boat, the bow of the schooner was carried a little towards the shore, so that her bowsprit came in contact with the side of the pier which forms the upper rack, a few feet from the end of the pier. This circumstance establishes…