The Havana

THOMAS, District Judge.

The Murcia, classed A1 at Lloyds, 1,694 tons net register, 303 feet long, 41 feet 6 inches beam, began the discharge of her cargo on January 6th at the wharf of the Pennsylvania Salt Company, Philadelphia, on the western shore of the Delaware river, which at that point is less than 2,000 feet wide. She continued moored on the south side of the wharf, her stem being almost flush with the river end of the pier, when, on January 9th, the Havana, a new steel steamship built by Cramps, about 7,000 tons gross, and 5,000 tons net register, 360 feet long, 50 feet beam, of about…