The Columbia
District Court, E.D. New York
In admiralty. The steamboat Columbia, running between New York and Rockaway Beach, and then on an excursion having about. 1,500 sewing-girls from New York City on board, overtook the schooner Ella Robbins, which was coming in to Barren Island with a catch of menhaden for the fish-oil factory there, and having her seine in two boats towing astern.
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In admiralty. The steamboat Columbia, running between New York and Rockaway Beach, and then on an excursion having about. 1,500 sewing-girls from New York City on board, overtook the schooner Ella Robbins, which was coming in to Barren Island with a catch of menhaden for the fish-oil factory there, and having her seine in two boats towing astern. As the steamboat came up astern of the sloop without slackening speed, the master of the sloop, who at first held his course, fearing to be struck, luffed twice; and the effect was to bring the boats astern of the schooner diagonally across the track…
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This is an action to recover of the steamboat Columbia the damage caused by the running over by that steamboat of some boats attached to the stern of the sloop Ella Robbins.
The place of the accident was off Coney Island. The Columbia is a large passenger steamboat engaged in regular trips between New York and Rockaway beach, and was at the time of her collision on her way to New York. The Ella Robbins is a fishing sloop that was returning from fishing at Rockaway shoals, having in tow her fishing boats with the net in them. The “purse” boat was next to the sloop, and…
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