The Walter D. Noyes
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Cross-libels by R. 15. Drake, master of the steamship Barranca, against the steamship Walter D. Noyes, and by the Crowed & Thurlow ¡Steamship Company against the steamship Barranca.
1Opinion of the Court
GRONRR, District Judge.
Cross-libels were filed on behalf of the Barranca and the Noyes, growing out of a collision between them which occurred near the Thimble Shoal dredged channel in lower Chesapeake Bay on April 27, 1920. Both vessels were badly damaged. The Barranca, a freight and passenger vessel, 4,124 tons gross, 372 feet long, was at the time of the collision on a voyage from Liverpool to Jamaica, via Norfolk for bunkers. The Noyes, also a large vessel, 4,387 tons gross, 354 feet long, was on a voyage from Norfolk (Sewell’s Point) to Boston, loaded with coal. At 1:32 p. m. of April…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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