The Clara Goodwin

WADDILL, District Judge.

On the evening of the 3d day of' March, 1904, about 8:30 o’clock, the barkentine Clelia Basso, of 324 tons net register, and the four-masted schooner Clara Goodwin, of 846 tons net register, were at anchor in the Delaware Breakwater, a. harbor of refuge on the Atlantic coast, and while thus anchored came-into collision, by reason of the anchor of one or the other of the vessels dragging during the storm. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the northwest, at an increasing velocity during the preceding two hours from about 28 to 45 miles an hour; the tide-*173runni…