New York, N. H. & H. R. v. Colonial Nav. Co.

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The libelant’s tug, Transfer No. 15, with loaded car floats on cither side which were each 357 feet long and extended about 200 feet forward of the tug’s bow, was, in the early morning of February 7, 1929, somewhat west of North Brother Island in the East River on her way to the libelant’s float bridges at Oak Point on the Bronx shore to the north of North Brother Island. A ferryboat overtook and passed her to port while she stopped her engines to permit that to he done. She started on, and soon after sighted the claimant’s passenger and freight steamer Lexington some 700…