The Minnie
District Court, E.D. Virginia
This was a libel in rem by Henry A. Haines, master of the schooner John C. Haynes, against the steam tug Minnie, to recover damages caused by a collision.
1Opinion of the Court
BRAWLEY, District Judge.
The schooner John O. Haynes, loaded with coal, was lying at anchor in Hampton Roads, on. the night-of *781February 6, 1895, at a point from one-half to three-quarters of a mile southwest of the wharf at Fortress Monroe. This is a capacious roadstead, and that it was a proper and safe anchorage ground was expressly decided in The J. W. Everman, 2 Hughes, 17, Fed. Cas. No. 7,591. The steam tug Minnie, having in tow the barges Volunteer and Puritan, passed the Haynes on tin1 morning of. February 7th, about 5:10, the Volunteer striking her bowsprit, and the barge Puritan…
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