The Breifond

KNOX, District Judge.

In this case the city of New York seeks to recover damages from the steamer Breifond for injuries sustained by the ferryboat Queens through the collision of the two vessels in a fog on the morning of March 27, 1921.

At the time of collision the Breifond was at anchor within the anchorage limits, in the' vicinity of the Statue of Liberty. The tide was ebb, and the steamer was tailing down the bay parallel with the channel. The ferryboat was en route from her Manhattan terminal to St. George, Staten Island. Her master’s version of the boat’s movements, and of what happened,…