Legal Opinion
Ocean S. S. Co. of Savannah v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 17, 1930No. 53-66PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
At just ten twenty-four p. m. on the night of September 25, 1925, the steamer, City of Rome, bound from Savannah to Boston, collided with and sank the submarine S.51, then engaged upon an "availability” test, with the loss of all but three of her officers and crew of thirty-six men. This occurred about twelve miles east of Block Island on a clear night, the vessels being within sight of each other for over twenty minutes. The City of Rome had been off the South Light of Block Island at nine eighteen, and the distance between her position at that time and the spot where…
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