The Adula
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF .THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. This was a libel in prize against the British steamship Adula, then under charter to a Spanish subject, which was seized June 29, 1898, by the United States cruiser Marble- . head, for attempting to run the blockade established at Guantanamo Bay in the island of Cuba, and was subsequently sent into the port of Savannah for adjudication.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF .THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. This was a libel in prize against the British steamship Adula, then under charter to a Spanish subject, which was seized June 29, 1898, by the United States cruiser Marble- . head, for attempting to run the blockade established at Guantanamo Bay in the island of Cuba, and was subsequently sent into the port of Savannah for adjudication. The Adula, a vessel of 372 tons, was built at Belfast in 1889, for her owner, the Atlas Ste’amship Company, Limited, a British corporation, and was registered in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The rectitude of the decree of the District Court condemning the Adula as prize of war depends upon the existence of a lawful and effective blockade at Guantanamo, the'knowledge of such blockade by those in charge of the vessel, and their intent in making the voyage from Kingston.
1. No blockade of Guantanamo was ever proclaimed by the President. A proclamation had been issued June 27, establishing a blockade of all ports on the southern coast of Cuba between Cape Frances on the west and Cape Cruz on the east, but as both Santiago and Guantanamo are to the eastward of Cape Cruz, they were not…
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