Ocean Engine & Boiler Works, Inc. v. Olympia Shipping Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Ocean Engine & Boiler Works, Incorporated, against the steamship Harvard; the Olympia Shipping Corporation, claimant, and the Equitable Trust Company of New York, intervening respondent.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIEED, District Judge.
The Harvard was formerly a private yacht,, and had been used by the government during the war. The libelant furnished work, materials, and plant in “repairing, altering, enlarging, and improving the vessel’s carrying capacity,” in order to fit it for the service which was desired by its new owner, the claimant *669in this case. The government service necessitated repairs, in the strict sense of putting the boat in first-class order, and at the same time the superstructure and quarters were enlarged while the boat was temporarily withdrawn from service, but while afloat…
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