Hennessey v. The Versailles
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. [This was a libel by Richard Hennessey and others against the ship Versailles and cargo, for compensation for salvage.]
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIS, Circuit Justice.
On the night preceding the first day of March, the ship Versailles, having on board a very valuable cargo, and a crew of eighteen, officers and men, bound to Boston, in approaching that port, struck on a sunken ledge of rocks called the Collamores, near the shore of Cohasset, was forced over the reef, and brought to anchor. The wind was then about north-east; and with both anchors out, and the yards braced back with the larboard braces, the ship lay broadside to some rocks, which were about fifty feet off, on her larboard beam. The pumps were immediately sounded, and…
2Cited by1 opinion
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