The Nellie

THOMAS, District Judge.

On the east shore of City Island, N. Y., there is a shipyard owned by one Robertson, and'opposite the same, and about 300 feet from the shore, is a spar buoy moored to an anchor of the mushroom form, weighing 250 pounds.” Some distance below the libelant has a shipyard, and in the adjacent water, on November 13, 1904, was the Miss Swift, an open automobile launch. At the same time, at Robertson’s mooring, the yacht Nellie was made fast by the loose end of the anchor chain, which was run out some 30 or 35 feet. On November 13th there was a heavy wind, *754which continued…