Legal Opinion
Polarus Steamship Co. v. The T/S Sandefjord
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 20, 1956No. Nos. 365, 366, Dockets 24002, 24003PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
At about two o’clock in the morning of July 11, 1951, two tankers, each over four hundred feet long, approaching one another in a fog from opposite directions, *271collided some forty odd miles at sea in the travelled highway off Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast. The district judge found that one of the vessels, the Sandefjord, was solely to blame, and she appeals.
The Polarusoil, which had no radar, was bound for Texas on a southerly course and the Sandefjord was heading north from Philadelphia to New York. Except for the fog, which “was a changing, fluid thing,”…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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