The Potomac

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This is an action in rem, brought by the Southern Transportation Company, owner of the lumber barge Potomac, against the steam tug Mascot, to recover damages for injury to the starboard side of the barge, as a result of a collision with the stone jetty, at the mouth of Christiana creek, on the night of November 4, 1904, while in tow of the Mascot. The barge, loaded with pulp wood, was taken in tow by the tug on a hawser about 150 feet long, at Delaware City, between 6 and 7 o’clock p. m., bound for Wilmington. The barge is a wooden vessel about 140 feet long, 23 feet…