The Patria

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libels were brought to recover for the damages to the four-masted schooner Francis M. aud for the loss of her cargo, through collision with the steamship Patria, off Fire Island, about 18 or 20 miles S. by W. from Shinnecock Light, a little before 2 p. m. of September 5, 1898, in thick fog.

The schooner, 205 feet long, two-thirds loaded with a cargo of ice, was bound from Kennebec river to Baltimore, and was going in a light wind from the westward on the starboard tack at the rate of about three knots an hour, heading S. W. by S., but making leeway about points,…