The Princess

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.

The old case of The Gustavia, Fed. Cas. No. 5,876, is relied on by the libelant as creating a lien. In that case the services of the broker in shipping a crew for the vessel were not performed in the home port. The distinction seems to have been observed in a decision rendered in this district. Seaver v. The Thales, Fed. Cas. No. 12,594. Likewise, in The Thames (D. C.) 10 F. 848, Judge Brown refused to impose a lien on a vessel for services in procuring a charter party and remarked that: “In The Gustavia, * * * shipping a crew was held” to be “like furnishing…