Legal Opinion
Waterman Steamship Corporation v. Gay Cottons, United States of America and Shalom Baby Wear
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 5, 1969No. 21767PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
On February 7, 1962, the S.S. CHICKASAW ran aground on Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Southern California. The island is 40 miles long and 400 feet high. The ship had left Yokohama for Los Angeles on January 27, 1962. No celestial fixes had been obtained after noon on February 5, because of stormy weather. The crew took several fixes with the radio direction finder, which had no recent compensation card, but obtained “wildly divergent” results. The vessel’s mechanical sounding device had been pried off the deck in Japan and sold for scrap. The fathometer was not…
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