The Alcazar
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
In Admiralty. Suits for salvage by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company, and by Rufus S. Salas and Thomas B. Starratt, against the steamship Alcazar; the Inter-American Steamship Company, Limited, claimant. Libels were filed by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company, owners of the Dorchéster and the Merrimac, and Rufus S. Salas, owner of the steam tug Columbia, and Thos. B. Starratt, master, against the steamship Alcazar, for salvage service.
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In Admiralty. Suits for salvage by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company, and by Rufus S. Salas and Thomas B. Starratt, against the steamship Alcazar; the Inter-American Steamship Company, Limited, claimant. Libels were filed by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company, owners of the Dorchéster and the Merrimac, and Rufus S. Salas, owner of the steam tug Columbia, and Thos. B. Starratt, master, against the steamship Alcazar, for salvage service. The libels were consolidated and heard together. Several members of the crew of the Alcazar filed intervening libels.
1Opinion of the Court
CONNOR, District Judge.
The Alcazar, a tramp steamer, owned by claimant, Inter-American Steamship Company, Limited, a Canadian corporation, leaving Port-au-Paix, Plaiti, with a cargo of logwood, or dyewood, December 18, 1912, destined for Chester, Pa., went on a *635shoal, on the North Carolina coast, “just inside the Knuckle Buoy, between Cape Lookout and Cape Lookout Lightship,” at about 1:55 p. m., December 23, 1912. Her dimensions are: Length, 322 feet; beam, 41.5 feet; depth, 20.7 feet; register, 3,129 tons gross, 2,020 tons net. Her draft, loaded, 18 feet 2 inches. Her crew consisted of…
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