General v. Pilots' Ass'n for Bay & River Delaware

LAYTON, District Judge.

On March 7,1957, the USNS MISSION SAN FRANCISCO, a tanker owned by the United States of America, but civilian manned and operated by Mathiasen’s Tanker Industries, Inc., was proceeding up the Delaware River. The SS ELNA II, a dry cargo vessel, registered under the flag of the Republic of Liberia, owned and operated by Oskar Tiedemann and Company, was proceeding down-river. The two vessels came into collision at the intersection of the Bulkhead Bar and the Deepwater Point Ranges. Henri V. Rice, one of the defendants in this action and a member of the Pilots’ Association…