Luckenbach S. S. Co. v. United States

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This litigation concerns a collision at night on October 21, 1942 between two blacked out vessels in an east bound convoy. The convoy stations of the colliding steamships were in adjacent columns, the Mathew Luckenbach being the fourth and last vessel in the third column (position No. 34) and the Zacapa being the third vessel in the fourth column (position No. 43). Ahead of the Luckenbach in position No. 33 was a tanker referred to in the testimony as the “whaler.” Ahead of the Zacapa in position No. 42 was another tanker and following the Zacapa was the Esso Bayway in…