The Kathleen Tracy

WARD, Circuit Judge.

Shortly after midnight of November 19, 1919, the tug Kathleen Tracy, with a hawser tow of five light coal boats, three in the first tier and two in the second, passed out of the East River, bound to Arlington, Staten Island. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the northwest, the tide was ebb, and the night dark and clear.

About 5 p. m. of the same day the steamer Lake Ledan, which, had been lying anchored for two, days on the general anchorage ground at Bedloe’s Island on her port anchor, with 45 fathoms of chain down, began to drag in a fresh gale, which rose for a…