Rustad v. Wuori

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty awarding the owner and crew of the oil screw fishing boat Stampede II salvage for the services of ship and crew on July 24 and 25, 1945, in bringing into the Columbia River from 9 miles off North Head, north of the river’s mouth, the wrecked fishing boat Melody.

The salved value of the Melody and her equipment is $17,500. The amounts found as the value of the services and awarded appellee were $2,000 for those of the Stampede II and of her master; $500 each to two of her seamen; $1,000 to one of her seamen, who boarded the…