Legal Opinion
Union Oil Co. of California v. The Tugboat San Jacinto
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 2, 1971No. 25775PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The appeal in this admiralty case requires us to consider the continuing vitality of the half-distance rule as the appropriate measure of the statutory com- ’ mand to go at moderate speed in fog. 33 U.S.C. § 192.
On Christmas Eve 1967 a Union Oil Company tanker, the Santa Maria, collided with a lumber barge towed by the tugboat San Jacinto. The vessels were moving in darkness (8:32 p. m.) through mist and fog in the narrow channel of the Columbia River between Waterford Light and Cooper Point, ten miles downstream from Longview, Washington. Both vessels…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- The Silver PalmCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937
- The Ernest H. MeyerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
- SKIBS A/S SILJESTAD v. S/S Mathew LuckenbachDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1963
- Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Union Oil Company of California, a Corporation v. The Tugboat San Jacinto and the Barge Oliver J. Olson Iii, Their Engines, Boilers, Tackle, Apparel and Furniture, Star & Crescent Towboat Company, a Corporation, and Oliver J. Olson & Company, a Corporation, Cross-Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Union Oil Company of California, a Corporation, and the Tanker Ss Santa Maria, Cross-Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1972