The Triton
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company, owner of the tug Lackawanna, against the steam tug Triton and the barge Nanticoke. Decree for libelant against both vessels.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, District Judge.
This libel, filed against the steam tug Triton and the barge Nanticoke by the owners of the Lackawanna, seeks to recover for the complete loss of the tug, the property of the crew, and the lives of two.
*319The Lackawanna was bound east, towing three barges connected by hawser, and the Triton bound west, with a hawser 200 fathoms long and towing one large barge, the Nanticoke. The collision occurred August IS, 1915, at about 9:15 p. m., at a point about 214 miles east of Handkerchief Shoal Lightship, in Nantucket Sound. While crossing Cross Rip Shoals, about 20 minutes…
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