The Algiers
United States Circuit Court
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtMcKennan, J.
The following facts are found as the result of the evidence:(1) Shortly after midnight on the morning of the nineteenth of November, 1882, off the capes of the Delaware,. and from 20 to 3Cf miles soutli-eastwardly from the .Five Fathom Bank 1-iglit-ship, a collision occurred between the schooner William J. White and the steam-ship Algiers, by which the schoonér was sunk, and the vessel and cargo were a total loss.(2) The night was dark, the moon had set, the sky was overcast, so that the stars could not be seen, and the wind was about N, N. E.(3) The steamer was pursuing her voyage from New…
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