Shepard S. S. Co. v. United States

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal brings up for determination whether or not the reduction gears of a turbine were damaged when the libellant’s vessel in which they‘were installed was in collision with a vessel of the respondent and, if so, the amount of the recoverable damages.

The libellant’s steamship Sage Brush was, on May 22, 1933, in collision with a ship of the respondent, the S. S. City of Rayville, off the Virginia Capes about twenty miles north of Chesapeake Light Vessel. The Sage Brush was a seaworthy steel cargo vessel of 5501 tons gross; 409.8 feet long; 54.2 feet beam; 27.7 depth…