United States v. Rapid Coaling & Transfer Co.

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

On the 30th of September, 1920, the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation chartered its ship Awensdaw to the Lowrence Navigation Company, a corporation chartered ünder the laws of Massachusetts, for the period of three months, upon a bare boat charter. Subsequently, -on the 20th of October, 1920, the charterer rechartered the ship toi Coale .& Co., of New York, for a cargo of coal from Baltimore, Md., to Rouen, obligating themselves to obtain bunkers for the voyage. On the 28th of October, while at the port of Baltimore, the appellee, at the instance…