Legal Opinion
The Bernicia
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 9, 1903PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit for collision.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLT, District Judge.
This is a suit to recover damages caused by a collision between the schooner Nimrod and the steamship Bernicia, off Cape Cod, on the night of March 19, 1903. The Nimrod was a three-masted schooner, 257 tons register, 132 feet long, and 30 ■feet beam. At the time of the collision she was on a voyage from Maine to New York, with a cargo of'480 tons of granite blocks. The Bernicia is a screw steel steamship, of 2,178 tons register, 347 feet long, and 47 feet beam. On the night of the collision she was on a voyage in ballast from Portland, Me., to New York. The sky was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Kennedy v. Steamer SarmatianU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland · 1880
- The AlgiersUnited States Circuit Court · 1886
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