Atlas S. S. Co. v. The Bourgogne

BROWN. District Judge.

The above libels were fded to recover damages for injuries arising from a collision between the steamships Bourgogne and Ailsa at a little after 2 o’clock in the afternoon of February 29, 1896, during a dense fog about half a mile below the Narrows in New York harbor. Both steamers were outward bound. The Ailsa, 1,330 tons register, 297 feet long, had left her pier in North River about noon, and finding thick fog at the Narrows came to anchor. The Bourgogne, a much larger steamer, 475 feet long, left her pier in the North River at 1:18 p. m. The tide was strong ebb. She…