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TIGER SHIPPING COMPANY, SA v. Tug Carville
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided November 11, 1974No. Civ. A. 240-73-NPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.
The S. S. SONIC is a large collier, 748 feet in length and 109 feet in beam. On the night in question she left her coaling pier at Lambert’s Point in Norfolk near midnight, partially laden with coal, to anchor in Anchorage “B” (see appended chart). The weather was bad; a strong westerly wind of 30-35 knots tended to blow her out of the channel, despite her draft of 35 feet aft and 26 feet forward, unless she maintained adequate steerageway. Her pilot, Wallace Harwood, an experienced, licensed Hampton Roads pilot, intended to proceed down the…
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