Maser v. The Laura V. Rose

The libel in this case was filed to recover for the damages sustained by the steam canal-boat Thomas Carroll, which was sunk by a collision with the three-masted schooner Laura Y. Rose, in the Delaware river, nearEdgemoor, about Up. m., on December 10,1884. The night was clear, and the available channel about half a mile wide, and without obstruction to either vessel. The Rose was light, sailing up river, against the ebb-tide, wing and wing, until a few minutes before the collision, and making about a mile and a half an hour by land. The Carroll had a cargo of 210 tons of sand, and was bound…