Green v. Compagnia Generale Italiana Di Navigation

BROWN, District Judge.

Tbe above libel was filed to recover ihe damages arising from a collision at sea, at about 1 o'clock in tbe morning of March 31, .1895, some 300 miles off the coast of Brazil, between tbe libelant’s whaling bark, Swallow, bound north for provisions, and the respondent’s steamship, Orione, bound from Genoa, Italy, to Montevideo. The night was clear. The Swallow was sailing slowly, elosehauled on tlie starboard tack, making a course of about E. X. E., with the wind from the S. E., light and a little variable. Tbe steamer’s course was S. W. x S., 3/4 S., and she was making…