City of Hartford

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

On the-2d of May, 1S72, at about midnight, the schooner William R. Ivnapp, owned by the libellants, and loaded with a cargo of sand, collided with the steamboat City of Hartford, off Hallett’s Point, in Hell Gate, and she and her cargo were thereby sunk and totally lost. The schooner was proceeding towards New York, and the City of Hartford was on a trip from New York to New Haven. The starboard side of the schooner was struck by the stem of the steamboat. The schooner, just before the collision, had star-boarded her helm and let her main sheet run off so as to go…