Clancy v. The Little Silver

BROWN, District Judge.

At about 11 a. m. of October 21, 1805, a bright clear day, as the libellant’s schooner Amos Briggs, about 110 feet long, was crossing the North River from Coinmunipaw Perry, bound up the East River, in tow of the tug George S. Schulz, upon a hawser of about 25 fathoms, she came in collision with the steamboat Little Silver, a swift side-wheel steamer of light draft, which was on a trip from Monmouth, N. J., to West 12th Street, North River. The steamboat was making from 12 to 14 miles an hour. She got across the hawser between the tug and the schooner, and the bowsprit…