The Taurus
District Court, E.D. New York
These were libels against the steam tugs Taurus and Kate Jones by the Boston & Amboy Railroad Company, the Standard Marine Insurance Company, and the Boston Insurance Company, respectively, to recover for injuries to barges while being towed by the tugs libeled.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge..
At about 6 o’clock in the evening of December 6, 1897, with fair weather and slight wind, the tug Kate Jones, on the port side, in charge of a licensed Hell Gate pilot, and the more powerful tug Taurus, on the starboard side, in charge of an unlicensed Hell Gate pilot, were towing, by a hawser of about 40 fathoms length, through Hell Gate, eight loaded barges, varying from 117 to 1B7 feet in length, arranged in two tiers of four boats each, with the Templar, the largest barge, on the starboard side of the rear tier, and the Brunette, the forward, and the Beaver, the…
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