The Scotia
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in a case of collision between the American ship Berkshire and the British steamer Scotia, by which the ship was sunk and totally lost. On the 9th of January, 1863, a British order in council, authorized by virtue of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act of July 29th, 1862 (25 and 26 Victoria), made a body of “ Regulations for preventing collisions at sea.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in a case of collision between the American ship Berkshire and the British steamer Scotia, by which the ship was sunk and totally lost. On the 9th of January, 1863, a British order in council, authorized by virtue of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act of July 29th, 1862 (25 and 26 Victoria), made a body of “ Regulations for preventing collisions at sea.” Among these were “ Rules concerning lights,” and “ Steering and sailing rules.” In the first class were these: Lights for Steamships. Art. 3. Sea-going steamships when…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
It is plain that had the ship continued on her course after she first saw the steamer’s, bright light, there could have been no collision. And, still more, had she. not afterwards and when near the steamer put her helm to starboard she would have been out of all danger. Even when she first sighted the Scotia she had passed the point at which her course and that of the steamer intersected. This is a necessary sequence from the facts that the angle between the courses of the two vessels was exactly one point, and that the .light of the steamer, when first seen, bore from a point to a point and…
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