The Charles Allen

Brown, D. J.

This is a libel by the owners of the lighter Mary to recover damages for a collision on December 12, 1876, in the Last river, near the Tenth-street buoy.

*318The steam-tug Brilliant, having the barge Hylene in tow upon a‘ hawser 25 fathoms in length, coming out of Newtown creek in the forenoon, took the Mary also in tow astern of the barge, and fastened to her by a hawser of about 15 fathoms. From Eighth to Fourteenth street, on the New Yorkiside of the river, is a reef marked by a buoy on its easterly edge, about opposite Tenth street, and nearly in the middle of the river. Except for…