New v. United States
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel by George H. New, master of the schooner Richmond, against the United States, owner of the steamship Ha-warden.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILE, Circuit Judge.
The libel in this case was filed to recover damages sustained in a collision between the schooner Richmond and the steamship Hawarden, which occurred about 2:15 o’clock on the evening of the 26th of June, 1920, in the Elizabeth river, Norfolk, Va., at a point approximately midway between the Norfolk & Western Railway coal piers at Lambert’s Point, and the Engineer pier at the Army Supply Base, above Lambert’s Point. The schooner was a three-masted vessel, 155 feet long, 26 feet 6 inches beam, and 9 feet deep, heavily laden, and the Hawarden a large steamship, owned by…
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- The GeorgetownDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1905
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