The Paoli

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed to recover for tbe loss of the three-masted schooner A. E. Rudolph by a collision with the tug Paoli off Cape Cod, a little before 3 o’clock in the morning of May 9, 1897. The weather was clear and dark, but with starlight; the wind, about W. S. W. The vessels were on opposite courses, the schooner sailing nearly due north; the tug, with three barges in tow on long hawsers, going nearly due south. The schooner was struck by the stem of the tug on her starboard side, between her main and mizzen chains, and sank in about one minute in 12 fathoms…