The Blackstone
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In admiralty. Collision — The schooner S. H. Woodbury, coal laden, came in collision with the large screw steamer Blackstone of the Merchants’ Line, between Boston and New York, and was sunk and totally lost at about two o’clock in the afternoon of the twenty-ninth of July last.
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In admiralty. Collision — The schooner S. H. Woodbury, coal laden, came in collision with the large screw steamer Blackstone of the Merchants’ Line, between Boston and New York, and was sunk and totally lost at about two o’clock in the afternoon of the twenty-ninth of July last. The vessels were both bound towards Boston, and were passing through the passage called in the answer the South Vineyard channel, approaching the Cross Rip light-ship from the direction of Martha’s Vineyard, the schooner going with a fair wind nearly as fast as the steamer and about four miles ahead of her, when the…
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
Every steamer is required by the statute to go at a moderate speed in a fog, and the only real dispute on this part of the case is, whether this requirement was followed. For it is not denied that after the schooner was discovered, every thing was done that could be done, and with all diligence, to avoid her, and to stop and back the steamer; and that it was then impossible to prevent the catastrophe. Nor is the sufficiency of the lookout brought into question. I refused to receive the opinions of experts upon the prudence of the master in keeping his steamer at this…
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