United States v. Tug Parris Island

LARKINS, District Judge.

These actions arose from the result of a collision which occurred on or about January 13, 1958, in the Harbor of More-head City, North Carolina, when a T-2 tanker midsection in tow of the Honduran tug “PARRIS ISLAND” and the local harbor tug- “MANIE” struck and damaged the moored United States Coast Guard Cutter “CHILULA”.

*146FACTS

The Honduran ocean-going tug “PAR-RIS ISLAND”, owned and operated by Linea de Navegación Rio S.A., was under time charter to Standard Dredging Corporation, claimant of the T-2 tanker midsection.

The tug “PARRIS ISLAND” had departed sometime prior…