The Triumph

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

This is a libel for salvage by Knowlton, one of the crew. The facts proved are as follows: The libellant shipped, as cook, on board of this vessel, for a voyage from Philadelphia to Boston and back. Ón the 24th of June last she sailed for Boston, laden with coal. On the 30th, being off Cape Cod, at about eleven o’clock at night, she came in collision with another vessel, called the Elisha T. Smith, which struck her starboard quarter, broke off some of her stanchions, injured the main boom and the house on deck, and tore the mainsail so as to render it useless. The wind…