Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

(after stating the facts as above). The faets, as found by Ward, Circuit Judge, in the court below, we fully accept, and shall not go over them further. Accordingly we shall assume that Doane first blew the two-whistle signal, proposing in what is technically a “narrow channel” to pass starboard to starboard a vessel approaching end on or nearly so. Furthermore, the reason why Doane wished to get to the port side of the channel was that her tow was so heavy that she had more difficulty in stemming the ebb tide then running, when keeping to the eastward or her own starboard side, than she…