The Marie Palmer
District Court, S.D. Georgia
In Admiralty. Suit by Arthur C. Chaney, as master of the schooner Marie Palmer, against the tug Edgar F. Coney, South Atlantic Towing Company, claimant, American Agricultural Chemical Company, intervener. By an amendment to the answer, claimant presented a petition for limitation of liability.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, District Judge.
On the 1st of December, 1909, the schooner Marie _ Palmer was stranded upon the Frying Pan Shoals, near Cape Fear, on the coast of North Carolina. The schooner had four masts, and had a carrying capacity of about 3,100 tons. She was nine years old, and was owned in New England by William F. Palmer and others. In the month previous to the accident, she had been docked at Perth Amboy, N. J., and was put in good order. She was caulked thoroughly, and, after caulking, the seams were cemented. She was then classed as “A 1.” Taken off the dry docks, she tvas immediately…
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