Lewis v. City of Savannah

On the night of March 30,1889, about six miles south-east of the Highland lights, the libelants’ three-masted schooner L. A. Lewis, coming up the coast, ivas overtaken and run into by the steamer City of Savannah, and badly damaged. The night was overcast and dark, but the atmosphere was clear, with the wind about W. N. W. Both were heading nearly for the Scotland lightship, — the City of Savannah directly for it; the schooner, with her booms to starboard, keeping the light just a little on her port bow. The schooner was therefore slightly crossing to starboard the line of the steamer’s…