Publicover v. Alcoa S. S. Co.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., appeals ■ from a decree in the admiralty, holding its ship, the “Alcoa Pilot,” solely-liable for a collision on the high seas, between herself and the four-masted schooner, “Lillian E. Kerr,” owned by the libellants, Publicover and others, in which the schoner was sunk. The “Alcoa Pilot” was bound for New York through the Cape Cod Canal, in a convoy of four columns abreast of two ships each, the columns being 1800 feet apart and the second ship in each column 1200 feet behind the first; the “Alcoa Pilot” was the first ship in the port…