Henderson v. City of St. Augustine

Brown, District Judge.

At about half past 1 o’clock in the morning of November 25, 1891, the schooner Norman of 367 tons, loaded with a cargo of lumber, bound from Savannah to Baltimore, and then heading about northeast, came in collision off the coast of North Caro*238lina with the steamer City of St. Augustine, of 390 tons, bound southward upon a course S. W. ¾ W. The stem of the City of St. Augustine first struck the end of the schooner’s jibboom, or bowsprit, which being broken at the knightheads and carried away, their bows came in collision. The schooner was so damaged that she filled, but…