Legal Opinion
In re La Bourgogne
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 22, 1902PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty. Petition for limitation of liability.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, District Judge.
On petition for limitation of liability. On July 2, 1898, the steamship Bourgogne, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, cleared Sandy Hook at 12 45 p. m., bound for Havre, France, with 714 persons on board. At about 5 o’clock on the morning of July 4th she collided off Sable Island with the-British ship Cromartyshire. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and the collision occurred almost immediately after the vessels sighted each other. The Cromartyshire first struck the Bourgogne’s boat No. 1 with her jibboom, and then struck the Bourgogne on the starboard side a…
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