City of New York

WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.

The schooner Mary Mankin was anchored on the usual anchorage ground for vessels of her class, in the harbor of New London, in the night of the 3d of May, 1862. The steamboat City of New York was one of a line of steamboats running between New London and the city of New York, entering or departing daily from the harbor of New London, and her officers must be taken to have known that the place where the Mary Mankin lay was customarily used for the anchorage of vessels. The place was on the west side or edge of the channel, and, to the eastward thereof, the width of the…