The William J. Lipsett

AOITESON, Circuit Judge.

During the night of February 15, 1894, the schooner John R. Penrose lay at anchor, heading up stream, at a point westward of the ship channel of the Delaware river,' — outside the channel, and to the westward of it/ — about one mile below Ship John light. She was a three-masted vessel, 138 feet 4 inches in length, and on this occasion was loaded-, drawing 15 feet of water. At 9 o’clock on the morning of February 16th the anchor of the Penrose was raised, and she commenced paying off, or turning around, east-wardly, to proceed down the river. The tide was ebbing, and a…