The Edith Godden

On the nineteenth of January, 1883, the libelant, being a seaman on the steam-ship Edith Godden, was ordered, with others, to help hoist and lower away from the steam-ship, while lying at Port Maria, Jamaica, a fruit boat, formerly a long-boat, designed to be used for the lading of cargo there. A derrick was made use of in connection with a steam-winch, and the boom of the derrick was held in place by means.of a block, through which ran double ropes to the foretop-mast, and the block was attached by an iron hook running inside of an iron collar which surrounded the derrick boom. After the…