Bank Line Ltd. v. The Rio Atuel

INCH, Chief Judge.

This is an action by The Bank Line Limited, as owner of the steamship Holly-bank, to recover damages sustained by the *524Hollybank when allegedly, in order to avoid a collision with the steamship Rio Atuel, it was compelled to go aground in the Cape Cod Canal on the early morning of October 31, 1947.

At that time both ships were being piloted by duly licensed Federal Coast Pilots; and were proceeding in opposite directions in the Cape Cod Canal. Both were large freight vessels, the Hollybank being 431 feet long between perpendiculars with a beam of 56.3 feet, and the Rio Atuel…