American Scantic Line, Inc. v. United States

KNOX, District Judge.

On November 21, 1928, the steamship Casper, owned by American Seantic Line, Inc., left New York upon a voyage to Copenhagen and Helsingfors and return to a port of the United States. The vessel stranded off the Finnish Coast on December 14, 1928.' Nine days later, and while still ■aground, the vessel took fire and burned to the water’s edge. She was totally destroyed, and all of the belongings of her crew were lost.,. ■

The day following the necessary abandonment of the. vessel, the American consul at Helsingfors, Mr. Wilkinson, was telegraphically informed of what had…