Smith v. The Monmouth

The above libels were filed, to recover for damages sustained by the canal-boat William Doran and the canal-boat Sarah, caused by the displacement waves from the steam-boat Monmouth in the forenoon of July 14,1890, while she was making her trip from Sandy Hook to pier No. 8, North river. The canal-boats were part of a fleet of about 30 boats, in tiers of 4 each, lashed together in the usual way, and coming up the bay from South Amboy to New York in tow of the steam-tug Raritan and three other helpers, upon hawsers about 500 feet long. The libelants’ boats were the inside boats of the third…