The Gypsy Queen

CALL, District Judge.

The passenger steamer City of Philadelphia left Wilmington for Tampa November 18, 1920, to assume the run from Tampa to St. Petersburg, with a coast pilot aboard and with no passengers or cargo aboard. Fate in the afternoon or early part of the night of November 21st the steamer struck an obstruction, prob*608ably .a rock, and the engines were reversed, and she backed into the obstruction, breaking or bending her shoe, which had the effect of breaking two blades of her propeller and jamming the other blade, so that the engine could not work. The boat was then anchored in…