Atlanta-Schiffahrts v. United States

BOYLE, District Judge:

This suit in admiralty was instituted by Atlanta-Schiffahrts G.m.b. H. and Hamburg-Amerika Linie, as owner of the foreign flag vessel M/S CHRISTIANNA PIKURITZ, against the United States of America, as owner of the U. S. Army Derrick Barge BD-6654, to recover damages allegedly resulting from a collision in the Mississippi River between plaintiffs’ vessel and the BD-6654 after said barge left her moorings during Hurricane Betsy on the night of September 9-10, 1965. The United States has impleaded New Orleans Stevedoring Company on the theory that a contract existing…