Dougherty v. The Steamer Franconia

Choate, D. J.

This is a libel by the owner of the barge Hope, to recover for the loss of the barge and her cargo of coal. She was in tow of the steam-tug George L. Merkle, on a voyage from Jersey City to Port Chester, on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1878. She was lashed to the port side of the tug. Off Ward’s island, in the Fast river, between 6 and 6:30 o’clock in the morning, and about 300 feet from the shore, the tug and tow came into collision with the steamer Franconia, a, propeller belonging to the Maine Steamship Company. From the effects of the collision the tug and tow soon after…