The City of Norfolk
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In. Admiralty. Suit and cross-suit for collision between the steamships City of Norfolk and Hawkhead. Decree in favor of the Hawk-head.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
This proceeding involves a collision between the steamship City of Norfolk and the British steamship Hawkhead, which occurred in the Elizabeth river, between Boush Bluff and the Virginian Railway piers at Sewell’s Point, on the evening of October 6, 1916, at 6 minutes after 7 oclock. The City of Norfolk was a passenger and freight steamer of the Chesapeake Line, 297 feet 5 inches long, 46 feet beam, and 16 feet 2 inches deep; and the Hawk-head, a large British steamship, of 4,622 tons gross, 385 feet long, 56 feet 6 inches beam, and 26 feet 5 inches deep.
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