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(after stating the facts as above).

Both parties rely on The Admiral Peoples (Kenward v. The Admiral Peoples et al.), 295 U.S. 649, 55 S.Ct. 885, 79 L.Ed. 1633 as decisive of admiralty jurisdiction. In The Admiral Peoples, supra, the injured fell while disembarking on a gangplank leading from the vessel to the dock. The gangplank placed so as to slope from the ship to the dock at a 10 or 15-degree angle, the gangplank being 2 feet wide, 11 feet long and was about "6 inches above the level of the dock. A rope railing on each side which terminated about 3 feet from the dock end; that the…