The Penobscot

PURNELL, District Judge.

John W. Harper, master and owner of the steamer Wilmington, in behalf of himself and other officers and crew of said steamer tiles this libel against the schooner Penobscot, her tackle, cargo, etc., claiming $2,500 salvage. On the 3d day of February, 1900, libelant, with the steamer Wilmington, was lying at the wharf at Ft. Caswell, inside the bar and harbor, near tire mouth of the Cape Fear river. The Wilmington is a passenger steamer of 200 horse power*, 7 feet draft, carries a crew of 7, and *206is worth $20,000 or $25,000. Seeing a schooner in or near. the breakers,…