Callahan v. The Cambusdoon

Bfiowií, J.

The above cross-libel? were filed to recover the damages sustained, respectively, by the. owners of the pilot-boat Charlotte Webb and the British hark Cambusdoon, through a collision that occurred about 1 o’clock in the morning of April 2, 1886, off the coast of New Jersey, about 15 miles S. S. E. of the highlands of Naves ink. The pilot-boat was intending to hail the bark in order to tender her services, but was run down by the bark while crossing the latter’s bows to the eastward; the bark’s bowsprit and stem striking the pilot-boat just abaft of the fore-rigging, carrying away…