The P. R. R. No. 18

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arose out of a collision between two carfloats which were rounding the Battery to proceed up the East River on February 8, 1930, at about 6:40 in the morning. The weather was clear and the tide running ebb. The libelant’s carfloat No. 541 was in tow of its tug P. R. R. No. 18; the other carfloat was in tow of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company’s tug Washington. The two flotillas were on substantially parallel courses, the Washington and her carfloat being somewhat ahead and about 200 feet further off shore than the Pennsylvania tug and…