The Henry Steers, Jr.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit to recover for salvage services, and cross libel for damages.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
This action is for salvage services. The tug Henry Steers, Jr., is too feet long, and her draft is 11J feet. At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon of November 21, 1900, she, with mud scow No. 46 in tow, was bound for the North river. When between the black buoy and the bell buoy in Coney Island channel, the breaking of the tug’s propeller left her without means of propulsion. This disablement was opposite a long stretch of sandy shore known as “Coney Island Beach,” and probably within a thousand feet of the same. The wind was from the southwest, blowing towards the beach…
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