The Umbria
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a suit in admiralty, brought in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, by the owners of the French steamship Iberia against- the British steamship Umbria, to recover damages for a collision, which took place about a quarter past one in the afternoon of November 10, 1888, in a dense fog off the coast of Long Island, about eleven miles from the entrance to New York harbor, and six…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. This was a suit in admiralty, brought in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York, by the owners of the French steamship Iberia against- the British steamship Umbria, to recover damages for a collision, which took place about a quarter past one in the afternoon of November 10, 1888, in a dense fog off the coast of Long Island, about eleven miles from the entrance to New York harbor, and six miles south of Rockaway Beach. The Iberia was a French steamship 240 feet long, of 1059 tons register, capable of a speed…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr.. Justice Brown,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
1. That the Umbria was gravely in fault in the matter of speed is too clear for serious argument. She was within twelve miles of one of the most frequented harbors in the world, in the track of vessels bound into and out of this harbor, and was running at a speed of from sixteen to nineteen knots an hour through an intermittent or variable fog, which was sometimes so dense that vessels could not see each other more than one or two lengths off. She had heard at least two whistles from the Iberia, and without waiting…
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