The Kirnwood
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by George F. Howland, master of the barge Florida, against the steamship Kirnwood, with the tug Coastwise impleaded
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
The collision between the steamship Kirnwood and the barge Florida, which is the subject of this litigation, occurred on the evening of the 29th of August, 1912, about 3:30 o’clock, in Hampton Roads, off Old Point Comfort, Va., about half a mile below the Ripraps, slightly to the southward of mid-channel.
The barge Florida, loaded with coal,' was the rear of two barges in tow of the tug Coastwise, proceeding to sea, and the Kirnwood was a tramp steamship, loaded with lumber, also bound out'of the Capes. The Coastwise was an ocean-going tug of 268 tons burden, 103 feet…
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