The Benjamin Noble
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. In the matter of the petition of the Capitol Transportation Company, as owner of the steamer Benjamin Noble, for limitation of liability. Claim of the Cambria Steel Company, cargo owner.
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, District Judge.
The steamer Benjamin Noble was built at the Detroit Shipbuilding Company’s plant in 1909, and was 240 feet between perpendiculars, 255 feet over all, 42 feet beam, and 18 feet *384molded depth. She was built for the so-called “canal trade” and for the particular trade of carrying pulp wood. The maximum draft for the Welland Canal, through which she was intended to operate, is 14-6. She had a speed of 10% miles an hour. She was a steel boat with steel houses and wooden hatch covers. She was what is known as very sheer, in that her 'deck raised very rapidly as you went…
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