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Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. This suit was originally instituted December 31, 1889, by the filing of a libel in admiralty by John Simpson, master of the British ship Clan Mackenzie against the steamer Oregon; to recover damages for a collision between the two vessels, which occurred December 27th in the Columbia River about a mile above ;a point in the river known as Coffin Rock light, and resulted in the sinking of the Clan…
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. This suit was originally instituted December 31, 1889, by the filing of a libel in admiralty by John Simpson, master of the British ship Clan Mackenzie against the steamer Oregon; to recover damages for a collision between the two vessels, which occurred December 27th in the Columbia River about a mile above ;a point in the river known as Coffin Rock light, and resulted in the sinking of the Clan Mackenzie, and the loss of two of her crew. The libel charged the Oregon with fault in not having a proper lookout or a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
At the time of the collision in question, which occurred about one o’clock on the morning of December 27, 1889, the ship Clan Mackenzie, an iron sailing vessel of 2500 tons burden, bound from Rio Janeiro to Portland in ballast, was lying at anchor in five fathoms of water on the westerly or Oregon side of the. Columbia River, about 900 feet distant from and below a steamboat dock known as Neer City, about three-quarters of a mile below Goble’s Point, and one mile above Coffin Rock. She was anchored on the edge- of the ship channel, which, at that point, is nearly half a mile wide at low…
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