The Windrush

HAZEL, District Judge.

These are separate libels for the recovery of damages sustained by reason of a collision between 'the three-masted steel bark Windrush, an American vessel, 240 feet long, built in England in 1892, and classed 100-A1 by Lloyds, and the Spanish passenger steamship Buenos Aires, 420 feet long, 48 feet beam, drawing. 30 feet of water, bound from Cadiz to New York, occurring on May 10, 1920, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 miles east of Sandy Hook. The various libels were consolidated, and were all tried together by consent of proctors as a single case. The bark, which was…