Youngstown

INCH, District Judge.

This suit arises from a collision in the North River in the early morning of February 27, 1944, at the entrance of the ferry slip between Piers 19 and 20 on the Manhattan side, between the Erie ferryboat Youngstown, owned by libellant, Erie Railroad Company, and one of the heavily loaded carfloats in tow of the tug Invader, owned by Havemeyers & Elder, Inc.

The tug Invader had two carfloats in tow, one on each side of the tug, the port float projecting about 150 feet beyond the stem of the tug, the other float was shorter. The ferryboat hit the port corner of this port…