The Roanoke
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; M. T. Dooling, Judge. Suit in admiralty by A. Sjogren and others against the steamer Roanoke; the North Pacific Steamship Company, claimant. Decree for libelants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, District Judge.
This was a libel for salvage against the steamer Roanoke by the officers and'crew of the Santa Clara, excepting the master and chief engineer. In the court below the libel-ants had a decree for one-half month’s pay to each, aggregating $887.50, and claimant, North Pacific Steamship Company, appeals.
The salient facts may be briefly stated: On April 10, .1913, while bound from San Pedro to San Francisco, and when in the neighborhood of Point Arguello, the “Roanoke” was disabled by the loss of her propeller. She was a steamer of 1,654 net and 2,354 gross tons, worth…
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