The Blackwall
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for California; the ease as.it appeared from the opinion of the District Court, from which it had been taken to the court, below was this: About 4 o’clock on the morning of- the 24th of August, 1867, the British ship Blackwall, then at anchor in the harbor of San -Francisco, was discovered to be on fire. Shortly afterwards the alarm was communicated to the shore, and the fire department of the city called out.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for California; the ease as.it appeared from the opinion of the District Court, from which it had been taken to the court, below was this: About 4 o’clock on the morning of- the 24th of August, 1867, the British ship Blackwall, then at anchor in the harbor of San -Francisco, was discovered to be on fire. Shortly afterwards the alarm was communicated to the shore, and the fire department of the city called out. As soon as the cause of the alarm was ascertained, the chief engineer of the fire department, with an officer of the harbor police,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Salvage is claimed by the libellants, as owners of the steamtug Goliah, for services renderd by the steamtug, her master and crew, on the twenty-fourth of August, 1867, in saving the ship Blackwall and her cargo, then lying at anchor in the harbor of San Francisco. They allege that the ship was on fire; that the cargo as well as the ship was in great danger, and that both would have been destroyed had it not been for the exertions of the steamtug, her master and crew; that the master and crew went with the steamtug to the assistance of the ship, and that they succeeded, after great trouble…
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