Graddick v. The Relief

BRAWLEY, District Judge.

This is a libel for a collision whicH occurred in the Ashley river about noon on April 26, 1894. The sloop Shamrock, loaded with gravel, was beating down the Ashley river with a light wind from the southeast, the tide being just past the flow. The steam tug Relief, with a large barge in tow, was coming up the river, and sighted the sloop near the west hank, as slie was about tacking to the eastward. The collision occurred *170near the east bank, and the sloop was sunk. The master oí the sloop testifies tliai tie had beaten out his tack to the eastward, and had turned upon…