Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. of Delaware v. Hubble Towing Co.

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

At about 10:30 a. m., on August 29, 1928, the steam schooner Wahkeena, a wooden vessel, loaded with a cargo of more than one million feet of lumber, sailed from Aberdeen, *837Grays Harbor, Wash., bound for San Pedro, Cal.

Outside the harbor, but inside the bar proper, the schooner, having encountered a dense fog, struck broadside upon the south jetty, which is constructed of rock and projects out into the navigable channel. The port side of the Wahkeena was on or against the jetty, and she was held fast there by.the force of the tide from 1:11 p. m. to about 5 p. m.

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