The Henry Ewbank
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. [This was a libel for salvage against the ship Henry Ewbank, the Charleston Fire and Marine Insurance Company and others, claimants.]
1Opinion of the Court
STORY. Circuit Justice.
This is a libel of salvage in the case of an asserted derelict. The ship Henry Ewbank, Jeremiah N. Jaques, master, owned in Charleston, (S. C.) sailed in February last from that port with a cargo of cotton and rice, bound to London. In the course of the voyage, having met with severe disaster and lost her rudder, she was on the 12th of March, in latitude 42° 5' and longitude 53° 50' W. abandoned by the master and crew, who on the same day were taken up by the ship Marmora, of Boston, and afterwards safely arrived at that port At the time of the abandonment, the ship (as…
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