Hardy v. The Raleigh

The libelant’s canal-boat J. E. Heaton was sunk by a collision with the steam-boat Raleigh, which took place in the Hudson river; a little below Inglewood dock, after sunrise, and about Half past 5 o’clock in the morning of May 8, 1889. The canabboat was at the time the port vessel of the first tier of a flotilla of canal-boats which had been brought in tow of the steam-boat Niagara from Albany, bound for New York city. The flotilla was composed of six tiers of canal-boats. Owing to a dense fog, the Niagara brought her tows to anchor at about 2 o’clock a. m., near the mid-channel of the…