Pacific-Atlantic S. S. Co. v. The Tower Grange

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

This case involves a collision which occurred in Baltimore Harbor on October 10, 1947, between two steam vessels, the British Steamer Tower Grange and the American Steamship Elmer A. Sperry.

The Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company, as bare boat charterer from the United States Government of the Elmer A. Sperry, a Liberty ship, libeled the Tower Grange whose owner, Tower Steamship Company, Ltd., has cross-libeled the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company, and has also filed a libel against the Curtis Bay Towing Company, the master of one of whose tugs was acting…