The Silver Star

HALE, District Judge.

This libel is for salvage services rendered in raising and saving the steamer Silver Star. The libelant is an owner of lighters, towboats, and wrecking apparatus. It now waives its claim for salvage and seeks to recover only reasonable compensation for services in July, 1910, for the use of its wrecking apparatus in getting the steamer off a ledge where she was sunken and heeled towards deep water on the easterly side of the island of Isleboro. The Silver Star is a steamer of 75 gross tons and 42 net tons. On the morning of July 23, 1910, W. S. Pendleton, of Isleboro,…