Alaska S. S. Co. v. United States

SAWTELLE, Circuit Judge.

This action was brought in the District Court by appellant to recover the cost of transporting from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Seattle, Wash., the erew of the steamship Depere, owned and operated by appellant, which vessel, on November 15,1920, while en route from Seattle to Ketchikan, was wrecked near Port McArthur, Alaska, where the erew went ashore. The following day, November 16, in response to radio messages from the Depere at the time of the wreck, a United States Coast Guard boat transported the erew of the Depere to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they were landed on…