The Bristol

Brown, D. J.

This libel was filed to recover for damages for injuries to the steam-tug Belief, inflicted by the steamer Bristol in a collision on the East river, near the Fnlton ferry, on the morning of July 5, 1872, under the following circumstances:

The Relief, about 7 o’clock in the morning of that day, left pier 20 on the East river, New York, and steamed across the river towards the Brooklyn shore, designing to take in tow to Harlem an ice-barge which the steam-tug Birbeck was to cast loose, and put in charge of the Relief. TheBirbeek came up the river on the New York side and let go the…