The Imberhorne

ERVIN, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by various seamen employed on the Russian ship Imberhorne, in which they claim under the provisions of section 4530 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by what is commonly called the “Seamen’s Act,” one-half of the wages that had been earned by said seamen up to the time the Imberhorne arrived at Mobile. The seamen were shipped at Grenock, Scotland, on or about December 1, 1916, and so had served about 55 days at the time when they reached Mobile. The proof shows that they then demanded of the master one-half of the wages that had been earned by…