Brigham v. Luckenbach

HALE, District Judge.

This case arises from a collision which occurred on the 16th day of November, 1904, at half past 9 o’clock in the evening, about three miles south by west from Cape Elizabeth lightship, between the libelants’ schooner, Vidia M. Brigham, and the respondents’ steam tug, Walter A. Euckenbach. .

The steam tug is 134J4 feet in length, 26 feet beam, 162/n> feet deep, 295 tons net tonnage, and of 900 horse power. She is employed by the respondents in towing on the Atlantic coast. She left her dock in Portland at about 8 o’clock in the evening of the collision, bound for…