Brainard v. Steamer Narragansett

Shipman, D. J.

This is a libel in rem to recover damages sustained by the schooner Silas Brainard, by a collision with the steamer Narragansett, in Long Island sound, on the morning of October 11, 1877.

The schooner Silas Brainard left South Amboy on the afternoon of October 10, 1877, with a cargo, bound for Middletown, Connecticut, and about half-past 3 o’clock on the next morning, at a point in Long Island sound nearly opposite Lloyd’s Neck, about 20 miles easterly of Throgg’s Neck, and about one-third the distance from Long Island to the Connecticut shore, collided with the steamer…