The W. C. Franz

RIPPEY, District Judge.

On November 21, 1934, a collision occurred between the steamer Edward E. Loomis, owned and operated by the Great Lakes Transit Corporation, and the steamer W. C. Franz, owned and operated by the Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway Company, on Lake Huron on the American side of the international boundary line about 35 miles southeast of Thunder Bay Light and from 22 to 23 miles, offshore directly east of a point about 4 *103miles southeast of Sturgeon Point, Mich. As a result of the collision the steamer Franz was sunk, four of her crew were drowned, one or more received…