The Rockaway

These cross-libels were filed to recover damages arising out of a collision, which took place in the East river, off Eighteenth street, a little after 7 o’clock in the evening of Sunday, December 26, 1880, between the brigantine Survivor and the ferry-boat Rockaway. The brig was a new vessel of 193 tons register, belonging at Windsor, Nova Scotia. She arrived at New York, loaded with potatoes, on the afternoon previous, by way of Long Island sound and the East river, and, after being taken through Hell Gate by the pilot in charge, was *450left by him on the usual anchorage ground, known as the…