Farr v. The British Steamship Farnley

Collision between, the schooner A. B. Weeks and the steamship Farnley.

The libel alleges that tho schooner A. B. Weeks, 445 tons, laden with coal, sailed from Baltimore for Boston on the eighth of September, 1370, and was proceeding down the Chesapeake hay with a seven-knot breeze from the north-west, her course being S. by E. j- E., and on her starboard tack, with all her proper lights burning, when, at 7:30 p. m., the lookout noticed a mast-head light, distant nearly five miles, and soon after discovered a green light; that those in charge of the schooner continued to watch the mast-head and…