Legal Opinion
The Southern Cross
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 6, 1937No. 100PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
The Southern Cross, owned by the libelant, was a combination passenger and cargo steamship, 535 feet long, 72 feet wide, and 30 feet 7 inches loaded draft. While at anchor in the Ambrose Channel, due to a fog, she was in a collision with the S. S. Quirigua, a similar passenger and cargo vessel owned by the respondent, 448 feet long and '60 feet wide. Each vessel had flush decks fore and aft, with a large superstructure amidships, and each was equipped with a regulation fog bell on the forward deck.
The Southern Cross was bound out to sea to South American ports, but had…
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