The Stephen Decatur

THOMAS, District Judge.

On the night of July 8, 1899, one of three scows in tow of the tug Stephen Decatur came in collision with the starboard bow of the schooner Sarah D. Fell, which was anchored in the neighborhood of Craven Shoal, south of the Narrows, in the Lower Bay, New York. For the injury thus done this libel was filed. The collision occurred about 2 o’clock in the morning. ' Craven Shoal is opposite Gravesend Bay. To the Avestward of a line drawn from Craven Shoal to Fort .Tomkins Light, and from such shoal to the south of buoy No. 11, are the western anchorage grounds. There are…