The West Cherow

WADDILN, Circuit Judge.

[1] The facts of the case are briefly these: The West Cherow, a large ship owned by the United States, 410 feet 5 inches long, 54 feet beam, and 29 feet 9 inches deep, and 8,582 dead weight tonnage, light, anchored under the direction of an official pilot in the roadstead of the Fayal Channel, in the Azores, on 75 fathoms of chain, on the evening of the 3d of February, 1920. Late in the evening of the following day, the Dutch steamship Pend-' recht, an oil tanker 242 feet long, 18 feet beam, and 1,589 gross tons, also anchored in the immediate vicinity on 60 fathoms of…