The South Portland

HANFORD, District Judge.

The libelants in this case signed shipping articles for a voyage on the steamship South Portland to Cape Nome, via Skagway and other places in southeastern Alaska, and return to Seattle. In making the run to the north some hardships and perils were encountered, hut nothing of an unusual character. The steamer’s boiler was old and required repairing, but there was nothing in the condition of the ship or her machinery to cause apprehension, in addition to what was known by the libelants before signing the shipping articles, and the vessel was in fact seaworthy. The…