The Sif
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suit by the English & American Shipping Company, Limited, as owner of the steamship Murcia, against the steamship Sif, Anton Hermandsen, claimant, and cross-libel by Hermandsen against the Murcia.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
These are cross-libels, filed on behalf of the owners of the steamships Murcia and Sif, respectively, for damages arising out of a collision between the vessels at about 2 p. m. on the 26th day of November, 1908, in the Delaware river below Philadelphia, in the Cherry Island Cut.
The Murcia, a steel screw steamer of 303 feet in length, 41.5 feet in beam, was bound inward to Philadelphia from Huelva, Spain, with a cargo of iron pyrites. The Sif, a Norwegian vessel, 325 feet in length and 47.1 feet in breadth, at the time of the collision, was bound on a voyage from…
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