The Havana

COXE, District Judge.

This is a limitation proceeding growing out of the stranding of the S/S Havana on Matanilla Shoals in the Bahamas in the early morning of January 6, 1935. The vessel was at the time on a voyage from New York to Havana, with fifty-one passengers and a general cargo. After the stranding, .the passengers were removed to another ship which responded to a distress call, and, in the transfer, one of the passengers lost his life when a lifeboat overturned. Some weeks later, the vessel was released from the strand through salvage operations, and then towed to New York, where she…