Connolly v. Ace

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The diesel lighter “Ace” and the motor launch “Bobby” collided in the Kill Van Kull off New Brighton, Staten Island, about a quarter past two on the morning of October 20, 1944 under the following ■circumstances:

The “Ace,” a workboat fifty-eight and one-half feet long with a beam of seventeen and one-half feet and a draft of five, left Sewaren, New Jersey, that morning, bound for Pier 1, Manhattan. She was properly showing all required lights and was navigating on her starboard side of the channel in charge of a pilot and engineer, both of whom were licensed men. The…