The Red Jacket

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

During the latter part of February and the early part of March, 1900, McBride, the libelant, with other stevedores, was unloading the cargo of the steamship Red Jacket, then lying at Girard Point wharves. The ship has four hatches; No. 2, at which the injury complained of occurred, being 24 feet long by 12 feet wide. No repairs had been made to the hatches for at least five years.

The wooden covering of No. 2 hatch was in three sections, supported by two athwartships, or strongbacks, running athwart the ship; and each section was supported in the middle by an…