The Emanuel Stavroudis

COLEMAN, District Judge.

The question here involved is one of salvage on account of service claimed to have been rendered to the steamship Emanuel Stavroudis by the libelants in towing her to a place of safety on the evening of January 4, 1927, from her berth on the north side of one of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad coal piers at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, on the south side of which pier the steel bark Richelieu, a French naval training vessel, w,as then burning, due to a fire of unknown origin.

The first point in the case is whether the service rendered by the three tugboats belonging to the…