Goold v. United States & Brazil Mail S. S. Co.

At a little past 7 o’clock in the evening of January 25, 1888, the schooner Nellie V. Rokes, loaded with a cargo of guano, while-sailing up the Swash channel, came in collision with the steam-ship Allianca, outward bound, at a point probably not much over half a mile-below the Romer beacon. The wind was moderate from the south-east. The schooner, until shortly before the collision, was sailing N. W. by N., wing and wing, her main-boom being to port, and the fore-boom and spanker to starboard. When the steamer entered the Swash channel from H to 2 miles above, a snow squall prevented seeing…