The Martino Cilento

On the thirtieth of April, 1881, the libelant’s canal-boat Manitoba was lying across the end of a short pier at the foot of *860Pearl street, Brooklyn, her bows projecting some 30 or 40 feet below the end of the pier. The bark Martino Cilento had been lying in the slip immediately below, along-side the bulk-head, her bows being up river and near to the corner formed by the projection of the short pier, and therefore lapping somewhat the bows of the Manitoba, and but a short distance inside of her. For the purpose of moving the bark out into the stream, a steam-tug had attached a hawser to her…