Pacific-Atlantic S. S. Co. v. United States

PAUL, District Judge.

This action involves a collision between the New Mexico, a battleship of the United States Navy, and the Oregon, a merchant vessel owned ' by- the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company. The collision occurred about 4:42 or 4:43 in the morning of December 10, 1941, at a point in the Atlantic Ocean about forty miles approximately due south of Nantucket Shoals Lightship.

The New Mexico, a 1918-class battleship, approximately 600 feet long on the water line, with a beam of 100 feet, and a displacement of about 35,000 tons, was proceeding from Casco Bay (Portland), Maine, to…