Hardy v. Fulda

Brown, District Judge.

On the 14th of July, 1888, at a few minutes past 9 o’clock in the morning, the steamship Fulda, length 420 feet, while proceeding on a voyage from Bremmerhaven to New York, came in collision, during a dense fog, with the libelant’s two-masted schooner Jeune Edouard, at anchor on the Grand Banks, in latitude 44 deg. 45 min. north, and longitude 54 deg. 50 min. west. The wind was strong from the southwest, and there was a considerable sea, with a heavy ground swell, so that fishing was suspended. The schooner was first seen by the lookout and by the officers on the bridge…