Young v. The Cherokee

This is a libel for salvage. The Cherokee is an iron passenger steam-ship of the Clyde Line, between Charleston and New York. She is built in six compartments, divided by iron bulkheads from the skin of the ship to the main deck. She has a one compartment forward, and another aft, for freight. The latter compartment has a lower hold just over the bilge, and a hold between decks.

On eighth February, 1887, at 9 a. m. , she left her dock on her voyage to New York. When she was in the stream, about 200 j^ards from her dock, fire was reported in her lower after-hold. The master, thinking that he…