John I. Hay Co. v. M/V Dorothy I. Southern

AINSWORTH, District Judge.

This matter involves a collision in the 'Gulf Intraeoastal Waterway in Louisiana at Mile 200 in which libelant’s towboat, CHICAGO BRIDGE, was involved with respondent’s towboat, the M/V DOROTHY I. SOUTHERN. The CHICAGO BRIDGE, a steel hull boat 80 feet long .and 20.75 feet wide, drawing 6 feet of water, was proceeding eastbound, without tow, and the SOUTHERN was proceeding westbound pushing, in a tandem rigid tow, four heavily loaded oil barges with a total over-all length of the flotilla of 1,060 feet.

At the point involved there is a right-hand bend of about 10° for…