Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. Ten Bales Gunny Bags

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

About one one o’clock in the afternoon of March 15,1874, as the steamer Colima was prosecuting her voyage from Panama to this port, a sudden jar or shock was felt, followed by the immediate stoppage of her engines. On examination it was found that three blades of her propeller were broken, and that her steam motive power was, in consequence, unavailable.

Sail was at once made upon the ship and she was headed for the land. About six in the evening she came to anchor under Cerros island, distant southerly from the port of San Diego about 292 miles, and from Cape St.…