The Edna V. Crew
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by The New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Company, as owner of Barge No. 2, against the steam tug Edna V. Crew and schooner Baker Palmer, and cross-libel-by Edward H. Smeed, master of the Palmer, against the steam tug Portsmouth and Barge No. 2. Decree against the Edna V. Crew.
1Opinion of the Court
WABDILL, District Judge.
On the evening of June 21, 1909; about 8:30 o’clock, Barge No. 2, a car float of the New York, Phila-* delphia & Norfolk Railroad Company in tow of the railroad company’s tug Portsmouth, en route from Cape Charles to Norfolk, Va., came into collision with the schooner Baker Palmer, then in tow of the tug Edna V. Crew, owned by Joseph M. Clark Company. The collision occurred in the waters of Chesapeake Bay, just outside of Hampton Roads, about three-quarters of a mile below the Ripraps, off Old-Point Comfort, Va.
The tug Portsmouth was a seagoing' tug especially equipped…
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