The Clara Davidson v. The Virginia

The collision complained of by the libelants in these cases occurred in Elizabeth river, off Lambert’s point, a mile and three-quarters below Fort Norfolk, on the fifth of May last, shortly before 7 o’clock in the evening. The passenger steamer Virginia, a fast boat owned by the Baltimore Steam-packet Company, was on lier regular trip down the river, bound for Baltimore. The schooner Clara Davidson was tacking up the "river. She had been on a starboard tack from below to buoy 11, which is the black buoy just below Lambert’s point. She had there luffed and got upon a port tack, heading W. by…