The Brabandier

WADDIRR, District Judge.

The steamship Brabandier, 2,467 tons net register, 300 feet long, 40 feet beam, 26 feet depth, loaded with a full cargo of 5,200 tons of grain, bound on a voyage from New Orleans, via Hampton Roads, for bunker coal, was on her way to Hampton Roads, and the Stensland, 285 feet long, 37 feet beam, and 20 feet depth, was also bound to Hampton Roads from Gibraltar. The ships came into collision in a fog, about 3:10 to 3:20 on the morning of September 22, 1916.

The evidence is that the Brabandier was on a course of northwest by west, and the Stensland on a course of…