Maltby v. Steam Derrick Boat

HUGHES, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem for salvage in raising a sunken steam derrick-boat from the channel of the Black-water river, near Franklin, Virginia. The libellants sent around from Norfolk to the wreck for the purpose, by way of Currituck and Albemarle sound, a wrecking schooner, furnished with chains, pumps, two divers, and a crew of, two or three other men. The work of raising consumed about four days; but the schooner remained somewhat longer by the side of the derrick-boat until the hole in her bottom was made entirely safe and stanch. The schooner was gone from Norfolk in…