Grant v. The Robert Graham Dunn
District Court, D. New Hampshire
This was a libel by Isaac N. Grant against the schooner Robert Graham Dunn to recover damages for a collision by which the schooner Captain John was sunk.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
The Captain John, a two-masted schooner, sailed from Roundout, in the district of New York, September 16, 1893, Boston-bound. September 20th, the Robert Graham Dunn, a three-masted schooner, left Portland harbor for Newport News; and about 10 o’clock of the same evening, through the fault of the Dunn, the two vessels were in collision off Chatham bar, the bluff of the starboard bow of the Dunn striking the starboard bow of the Captain John, carrying away her jib boom, disabling her foremast, and cramping her boat, resulting in the total loss of the Captain John and…
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