Kalt v. The Kenilworth
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel by Hyron Kalt, owner of the schooner Plora A. Sawyer, against the ship Kenilworth, for damages caused by collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
At about 3 o’clock a. m. of Saturday, May 19, 1894, during thick fog, a collision occurred at sea about 55 miles southeast of Barnegat light, between the libelant’s small schooner Flora A. Sawyer, bound south, and the ship Kenilworth, inward bound for New York.
The Kenilworth was a four-masted steel ship of 2,178 tons net register, 320 feet long by 40 feet beam, carrying a light cargo of tea, and well out of the water. The Sawyer was but 84 feet long and of 93 tons net register, light laden, with 30 tons sand ballast, about 4,000 feet of lumber, provisions and tools. The…
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