Ulster Oil Transport Corp. v. the Matton No. 20. the Petroleum No. 7. the Carutica

The “Matton No. 20” is of course chargeable with the statutory fault of failing to blow a bend whistle; and she is equally chargeable with not having a lookout stationed where he should be, a fault which we have twice held is to be regarded as the equivalent of a statutory fault.1 On the other hand, the “Carutica” was guilty of the most unardonable navigation, whether, as seems to me most probable, she was merely cutting close to the north shore to make an easier turn around the bend, or was guilty of the strange navigation attributed to her in the findings. If her fault was the first, I…