Hall v. The Bay of Naples
District Court, E.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suits by various tugs and a ferry-boat against the ship Bay of Naples and cargo, to .recover compensation for salvage services. The different suits were consolidated on motion of claimants.
1Opinion of the CourtBenedict, J.
On the night of September 2,1889, while the ship Bay of Naples was lying in the harbor of New York, at anchor below Bedloe’s *91island, in the channel, and loaded for a voyage to sea, with a cargo consisting of 55,600 cases of kerosene oil contained in tin cans, — two cans being inclosed in a box of pine wood, and making a case, — fire broke out in the cargo in the between-decks near the fore-hatch. The time when the fire broke out was 11:30 or 11:40", and at this time the tugs that navigate the harbor were laid up fast to the docks for the night. The ship lay where the fire-boats of the…
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