The Richmond
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel in rem to recover damages for collision. This is a libel to recover damages caused by a collision between the steamship Richmond and the Georgie Ciarle, a three-masted schooner. The collision occurred on the night of January 31, 1899, about three miles E. S. E. of Thimble Light, in Chesapeake Bay, between 9:30 and 9:50 p. m. The steamship was on its outward trip to New York, having left Norfolk about 7 p. m.
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In Admiralty. Libel in rem to recover damages for collision. This is a libel to recover damages caused by a collision between the steamship Richmond and the Georgie Ciarle, a three-masted schooner. The collision occurred on the night of January 31, 1899, about three miles E. S. E. of Thimble Light, in Chesapeake Bay, between 9:30 and 9:50 p. m. The steamship was on its outward trip to New York, having left Norfolk about 7 p. m. The schooner was also bound from Norfolk to New York, with a cargo of lumber: but after passing out of the capes had, on account of the threatening condition of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWaddill, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The collision in this case being between a sailing vessel and a steamship, reference may be had to the rules of navigation properly applicable, with a view of ascertaining if they have been violated, and by whom. Article 20 of the rules of navigation is as follows: “When a steam vessel and a sail vessel are proceeding in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sail vessel.” Article 21 is as follows: “Where, by any of these rules, one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course…
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