The Baltic

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the United States, as the owners of the steamboat Flora, against the steam ferryboat Baltic, to recover for damages caused by a collision which took place between the two vessels, on the 19th of December, 1803, about half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, in the harbor of New York, about 300 yards distant from the Barge office dock, at the foot of Whitehall street. The Flora was attempting to make a landing at the westerly side of pier No. 1, East river, being the pier at the extreme east end of the Battery. The tide was strong flood,…