Consolidated Coal Co. v. Knickerbocker Steam Towage Co.
District Court, D. Maine
In Admiralty. Suit by the Consolidated Coal Company against the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Company and the Eastern Dredging Company.
1Opinion of the Court
HADE, District Judge.
The libelant’s barge No. 8 left Bath on the morning of July 7, 1910, loaded with a cargo of 1,417 tons of coal, drawing 15.9 feet forward and 16.9 feet aft, in tow of the Perry, a steam tug of the Knickerbocker Steam Towage Company. The tug had undertaken to tow the barge to Gardiner, her port of discharge. Upon reaching a point nearly in the center of the Kennebec river at Dovejoy’s Narrows, about 12 miles from Bath, and while passing over that part of the Narrows known as Old Dry Rock Dedge, the barge struck her port bow on an obstruction. She slewed out about 2 feet…
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