The Frederick Luckenbach

THACHER, District Judge.

Denying petitioner’s right to limit liability, owners of cargo shipped from Pacific Coast ports to New Orleans and Mobile per steamship Frederick Luekenbaeh have filed claims for cargo damage, claiming deviation because, instead of sailing directly from Colon through the Yucatan Channel to Mobile or 'New Orleans, the vessel sailed through the Windward Passage to Neuvitas, Cuba, pursuant to orders of the petitioner. On the voyage from Neuvitas to New Orleans the ship encountered a hurricane and put into Tampa Bay in distress; the vessel and cargo being seriously…