Legal Opinion
The Bare Cleone
District Court, D. California
Decided March 10, 1881PublishedCited by 3 opinions
Libel for Salvage Compensation.
1Opinion of the Court
Hoffman, D. J.
On the fifteenth of October, 1879, the bark Cleone, which had just completed a successful whaling voyage in the Arctic ocean, came to anchor in St. Lawrence bay, near the northerly entrance to Behring’s straits. On, the 19th her chains parted in a gale of wind, and a short time afterwards she was driven ashore on a sandy beach in the north-east part of the harbor, where she bilged and filled with water. After the gale subsided she lay on her starboard side, “very still and quiet,” in 12 feet of water. The season was far advanced, and Captain Nye, the master, at once set about…
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