The Allianca

GRONER, District Judge.

This is a libel filed by the Thames Towboat Company against the steamship Allianca. The Allianca, a large steamship, belonging to the Panama Railroad Company, had been chartered to the Old Dominion Transportation Company for operation in the passenger and freight business between Norfolk and New York. At about 8 p. m., March 27, 1922, the steamship was in collision with the steam tug Bess, the property of the libelants, resulting in the sinking of the tug. The respondent Old Dominion Transportation Company has brought in the Panama Railroad Company under the Fifty-Sixth…