The Wissahickon
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Empire Engineering Corporation, owner of the steel dredge Pocantico, against the steamer Wis-sahickon-, the Erie & Western Transportation Company, claimant, with the Reid Wrecking Company impleaded.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZED, District Judge.
The steel dredge Pocantico, having an A-frame rigidly attached to her deck, sank in Lake Erie on June 11, 1913, about 2% miles southwest from the Buffalo breakwater north end light, *346and one-half mile east of Waverly Shoal gas buoy. She lay on the bottom in tire pathway of vessels in about 43 feet of water, her A-frame projecting about 12 feet above the surface. On the night of August 30, 1913, at about 9 o’clock, the steamer Wissahickon, carrying a light load, her dr^it being 6 feet 8 inches forward and 14 feet 4 inches aft, and-bound for Erie, Pa., ran over the sunken…
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