Derby v. City of New York

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The tug New York Marine No. 2, of the claimant New York Marine Company, took in tow a flotilla of eleven barges made up in four tiers. The first three tiers had three barges abreast, and the fourth tier two barges. In the first tier, which was on a sixty-foot hawser, the Maher Bros, was the port barge and the L. F. Leary the starboard barge. The tow was bound from the lower bay in New York Harbor to Perth Amboy. As it approached Staten Island, a thick fog set in, so that when it neared St. George the tug decided to tie up at Pier 1 (which is adjacent to the…