The Elizabeth M. Baker

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The Black Hawk, a vessel of 4,988 gross tons, 401 feet long and 54 feet beam, bound for Amtwerp, Belgium, on December 29, 1932, left her pier for the voyage. She was lying bow in, at the south side of Pier K, inside a sister ship, the Black Heron. Alongside the Black Heron lay the grain elevator, Oswego, which was there to load grain on the Black Heron when the Black Hawk loft her dock. At the end of the pier were four barges placed there, that morning and extended out river. A line of dolphins ran parallel to Pier K, 200 feet to the south; the outer dolphin being 200…