The Comet

BROWN, District Judge.

A little after 1 o’clock in the morning ■of June 29, 1899, the sloop yacht Thom of about 8 tons, and 51 feet long, and the schooner yacht Comet of 62 tons’ burden, and about 80 feet long, were both driven from their usual anchorage grounds off Bay Ridge in a sudden squall, and dragging their anchors brought up against the long pier at the foot of Sixty-Fifth street, Brooklyn. The Thorn reached the pier first, and was there made fast alongside without much damage. A few minutes afterwards the Comet was carried past her'; but her main boom projected considerably beyond…