Davis v. Esso Delivery No. 13

COLEMAN, Chief Judge.

This is a collision case. The vessels involved were the Esso Delivery No. 13, a tanker barge, owned by the Esso Standard Oil Company, and the Susanne, a pleasure motor boat, owned by libellant, Hamilton C. Davis.

The material facts relative to the collision are as follows: Early in the morning of July 8, 1950, the tanker barge was proceeding up Chesapeake Bay bound for Baltimore with her proper lights showing. She is propelled by Diesel engines, length 246', beam 40', draft when fully loaded 14' 6", gross tonnage 1224, net 727. She was light at the time and her draft was…