The Winifred

BROWN, District Judge.

This libel was filed to recover salvage compensation for services performed by the libelants’ steamer Vigi-lancia, in towing the steamship Winifred and her cargo from a point on the high seas, between Jupiter and the Bahamas, in latitude 29° 8' N., and longitude 78° 7' W., about 250 miles to the port of Nassau, New Piovidence, on the 15th, Kith and 17th of August, 1899. The Winifred had become disabled and unmanageable in a hurricane of extreme violence with an occasional velocity from 120 to 140 miles per hour, which struck her on August 12th and continued through the…