Thames Towboat Co. v. Central R. of New Jersey
District Court, D. Connecticut
This was a libel by the Thames Towboat Company against the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey to recover damages for a collision.,
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, District Judge.
On the evening of December 5, 1892, at about 7:40 o’clock, the libelant’s steam tug Nathan Hale, 135 feet long, 750 horse power, left Brown’s dock, Jersey City, to go down the North river to Jersey fiats for a tow, taking a south and west course, parallel to the Jersey shore, and about a quarter- of a mile out therefrom. On the same evening the respondent’s steam tug Red Ash, 95 feet long, started from Thirty-Second street, East river, to go to respondent’s pier No. 6, at Communipaw, N. J. She rounded the Battery at a distance of about 600 feet, and took a westerly…
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