Potter v. Hartford & N. Y. Transp. Co.
District Court, D. Rhode Island
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by James A. Potter and others, owners of the gas lighter Providence, against the steamship Georgia, and by James A. Potter, administrator of the estate of Manuel Williams, deceased, against the Hartford & New York Transportation Company.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
These libels relate to a collision between the steamship Georgia and the gas lighter Providence, in a dense fog, near Bullock Point lighthouse in the Providence river, about S :30 a. m., daylight saving time, August 21, 1920.
The Georgia, 280 feet long, SO feet beam, 13-13% draft, was going *659up the river, carrying 241 passengers and a cargo, on her regular trip from New York to Providence, R. I. The gas lighter Providence, 64 feet over all, 22 feet beam, S feet draft, with a deck load of 39,000 feet of lumber, was going down the river. The stem of the Georgia struck tire…
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