The No. 1004

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The collision occurred in the East Biver close to the Brooklyn shore, off Adams street, in broad daylight, on the afternoon of May 31, 1924. The weather was clear, the tide flood, and the wind northwest. The steam tug Boches-ter, owned by Lehigh Valley Bailroad Company of New Jersey, libelant, was coming down the East Biver bound for Jersey City with two earfloats in tow, the No. 801 being made fast alongside the tug’s starboard side, and the No. 1004 being outside of the No. 801 and overlapping its bow. They started at the Forty-Seventh street pier on the New York side,…