Calmar S. S. Corp. v. United States

RYAN, District Judge.

These two suits brought in the admiralty by Calmar Steamship Corporation, as owner of the S.S. Portmar, arise out of the voyage of that vessel from San Francisco which began on November 28, 1941. On that voyage she was damaged by Japanese air attacks while in the Timor Sea on February 15 and 16, 1942, and in the harbor of Port Darwin, Australia, on February 19, 1942, she was subsequently beached after these attacks near Darwin.

The suits were tried together and the findings of fact hereinafter made and the conclusions of law reached are to be applied to both suits.

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