The Peter White

HAZED, District Judge.

This proceeding is in rem to recover salvage for services rendered by the steamboat Troy in taking in tow and conveying to the port of Duluth the freight vessel Peter White, which was found disabled on Dake Superior on October 31, 1905. The Peter White is a large steel vessel 524 feet long, 54 feet beam, 30 feet in depth, gross tonnage 9,000, and valued at $330,000. The Troy is 398 feet long, 47 feet beam, 28 feet in depth, valued at $325,000. The latter was bound from the port of Duluth to Buffalo at the time of performing the salvage service, and carried a cargo of the…