Legal Opinion
Petition of United States
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided May 5, 1955No. 7622PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, District Judge.
Just before dawn in the North Sea on May 6, 1953, the USNS Haiti Victory, headed for Bremerhaven, and the westbound S.S. Duke of York, an overnight ferry between the Hook of Holland and Harwich, England, collided. The Duke of York had just emerged from a fog; the Haiti Victory was running in clear weather. Minor damage was suffered by the Haiti Victory, but her stem so deeply knifed into the port side of the Duke of York, just forward of her bridge, that the entire bow of the latter fell off and sank. Several of her 437 passengers were killed, others injured, and a large…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- The Silver PalmCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937
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- The FjellDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1919
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