The Henry O. Barrett

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This is a collision between the schooner Henry O. Barrett, while in tow of the tug James McCauley^ and the dredge Columbia, which was anchored in the neighborhood of Dan Baker Shoals in the Delaware river, where she was at work in the daytime under contract with the government of the United States for dredging a new channel. It occurred in the early morning of April 2, 1903, at half past 4 o’clock. The schooner, a large coasting vessel, drawing upward of 24 feet of water, started from Philadelphia for Boston with a cargo of coal, and at the time of the accident the tug…