City of Chattanooga

This case raises the single question of whether it was a fault for the respondent’s tug, Tamaqua, with two barges in tow, to anchor in a fog in the fairway between Nobska Point and the High Fence Lightship in Vineyard Sound. Section 471 of title 33 of the United States Code (33 US CA § 471) gives the Secretary of War power to define and mark anchorages and to provide regulations for their use. On April 16, 1923, the Secretary promulgated regulations for “New Bedford, Outer Harbor, Buzzard’s Bay, Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds.” The limit for “Anchorage I, Nantucket Sound North Shore,” was as…