The Bessie L. Morse
District Court, D. Maine
In Admiralty. Uibel by Edward F. Brackett and another against the schooner Bessie E. Morse. Decree for libelants, in accordance with the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
HAEE, District Judge.
On the morning of November 30, 1918, the schooner Bessie E. Morse left Boothbay Harbor, Me., for Grand Manan, N. B., her home port. She is a two-masted schooner, with two gasoline engines. She is 76 feet long, 18% feet beam, 6 feet deep, with a tonnage of 35 tons. She carried three men, Capt. Grosvenor C. Wells, Engineer Franklin, and a cook. When about a mile and a half east of Ram Island Eight, and approximately one mile to the south of Inner Heron. Island, fire broke out in her cabin. Capt. Wells gave *253the alarm; salt was thrown on the fire; water was bailed up in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- LawDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1903
- Baker v. HemenwayDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1876
- The Rebecca ShepherdDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1906
- Lottie E. HopkinsDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1904
- The Ann C. StuartDistrict Court, D. Maine · 1917