The Material Service

WOODWARD, District Judge.

This is a petition for limitation of lia^ bility under sections 4283, 4284, and 4285'1 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (46 USCA §§ 183, 184, 185).

About 9 o’clock a. m. on November 30, 1930, a violent explosion occurred on the motor vessel Material Service,_ owned by libelant and petitioner, Leathern Smith-Putnam Navigation Company, a corporation, *1007while proceeding on the Sanitary Canal loaded with a cargo of gravel. As a result of the explosion the cook, Charles Embury, was so badly burned that he died five days later, and various members of the crew of…