The Cromwell
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
In Admiralty. Petition by the Franco Ottoman Shipping Company, Limited, owner of the steamship Cromwell, for limitation of liability. Hearing on claims of the Wilmington Railway Bridge Company and others.
1Opinion of the Court
CONNOR, District Judge.
The Cromwell is a steel screw steamship, 3,086 tons gross and 1,977 tons net register, built 1894, 312 feet long, 43 feet wide, 21--10 feet depth of hold, owned by Franco Ottoman Shipping Company, Limited, a British corporation; Nathaniel Wicklen, captain. She came to the port of Wilmington, N. C., Janu*208ary 2, 1914, with cargo of pyrites, consigned to Seaboard Air Line Railway. After unloading a portion of her cargo at Wilmington, her agent, Henry Whyte, contracted with the owners of the steam tug Gladiator to tow her up the Cape Fear river to the Swift Company…
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