The Standard

On September 8, 1882, at about half past 10 in the forenoon, as the libelants’ steam-tug Monitor, having in tow one boat lashed upon her port side, and two others lashed to her starboard side, was coming eastward out of the Kills with the ebb-tide, when a little to the southward of the Can buoy, (No. 17,) below Bobbins’ Beef light, she came in collision with the oil-barge Sweepstakes, which was in tow, on a hawser; of the steam-tug Standard, which had just passed the buoy, and was bound down the Kills. The pilot of the *208Monitor was about half-way between Constable’s point and the Can buoy—that…