Cianciminos Tow & Transportation Co. v. The Ripple

On the 18tli of July, 1889, the wrecking boat Merritt was anchored off Barclay-Streot pier, from 175 to 200 yards wrest of the sunken -wreck Atlas, with which she was connected by a cable from her stern. The Ripple having the libelant’s scow in tow on a hawser, not observing the Merritt’s hawser until within a couple of hundred yards *64of it, shaped her course so as to go between the Merritt and the wreck. She perceived the hawser in time to sheer to the westward, and cleared the Merritt herself; but in the ebb-tide the scow did not clear, and was damaged by colliding with the Merritt’s bow.…