The Indrapura
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. Suit in admiralty by Gilbert Palache and others, partners as H. M. Newhall & Co., against the steamship Indrapura, the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company, claimant. Decree for libelants (178 Red. 591), and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The Indrapura was a British steam vessel for the carriage of freight, and was of the type known as “water *713ballast” vessels. Water was supplied, to and discharged from her peak ballast tank by means of a pipe extending therefrom aft through the holds of the ship to the engine room, where it was fitted with a stopcock, and where the operation of filling or discharging was carried on. There were also means for filling the tank from the deck. The pipe, at the time of the voyage in question, which was in 1903, had been in service some two years. It was a 31/i> inch cast-iron…
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