Baker Salvage Co. v. The Kimberley

The steam-ship Kimberley, a British vessel bound from New Orleans to Liverpool, by way of Hampton Roads, for coal, laden with 8,000 bales of cotton, 15,086 bushels of corn, and 24,153 bushels of wheat, ivas stranded, near midnight on Thursday, December 1,1887, in a heavy storm, on the Atlantic beach, at False Cape shoals, off Curri-tuck county, N. C., about 1⅝ miles south of the Virginia state line, near the United States life-saving station No. 6, 30 miles south of Cape I lenry. The ship was 350 feet long, 41 feet wide, and 33 feet in depth of hold. Her gross tonnage was 3,760, andnet…