The Alberta
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
In Admiralty. On libel and eross-libel fora collision between the steam-barge John M. Osborn and the Canadian steam-sbip Alberta, which occurred about half past 9 o’clock in the evening of July 27, 1884, from eight to ten miles to the northward of Wbitefish Point light, in Lake Superior.
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In Admiralty. On libel and eross-libel fora collision between the steam-barge John M. Osborn and the Canadian steam-sbip Alberta, which occurred about half past 9 o’clock in the evening of July 27, 1884, from eight to ten miles to the northward of Wbitefish Point light, in Lake Superior. The Osborn was bound on a trip from Marquette, in the state of Michigan, to Ashtabula, in the state of Ohio, laden with a cargo of 1,120 tons of iron ore, and bad in tow, with the usual length of towline, the schooners Thomas Gawn and George W. Davis, in the order named, both laden with iron ore. The libel…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
This collision was evidently caused by a misapprehension upon the part of the officers of each vessel with regard to the course of the other. The officers of tho Osborn, as well as those of her schooners in tow, and the officers of the steam-barge Hecla, which was following behind her, heard, or thought they heard, the first whistle of the Alberta, from one to two points off their starboard bow, the second and third whistles still broader off, and the last one, an imperfect, muffled sound, well upon tho Osborn’s starboard beam. These signals indicated to them that the Alberta was on a…
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