The Egypt
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
In Admiralty. STATEMENT OP PACTS PREPARED BY THE JUDGE. The British steam-ship Egypt, of Liverpool, England, Robert Reavely, master, went ashore off Paramore’s island, Yirginia, at about noon on Thursday, the eleventh of January, 1883. She was a vessel of 1,550 tons burden, with iron compartments and water-ballast tanks; of great length, and proportionally narrow beam, and difficult of management when aground.
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In Admiralty. STATEMENT OP PACTS PREPARED BY THE JUDGE. The British steam-ship Egypt, of Liverpool, England, Robert Reavely, master, went ashore off Paramore’s island, Yirginia, at about noon on Thursday, the eleventh of January, 1883. She was a vessel of 1,550 tons burden, with iron compartments and water-ballast tanks; of great length, and proportionally narrow beam, and difficult of management when aground. Paramore’s island is off Accomac county, on the Atlantic coast, about 33 miles north of the channel which makes out of Hampton Roads into the ocean between the capes of Chesapeake bay.…
1Opinion of the CourtHughes, J.
This case corresponds so nearly in its general character and iu its details with that of The Sandringham, 10 Fed. Rep. 556; S. C. 5 Hughes, 316, decided by this court a year ago, that I do not feel called upon to deal particularly with every question of law arising in it. There was no appeal from my decision in the case of The Sandringham, and the questions of law therein decided must be regarded, until reversed by some appellate court, as the law of tills court and of this port.
The present is a case of salvage of the most meritorious character. The service was rendered under all the…
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