The St. Charles
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for salvage by the Marti Navigation Company, owner of the steamship St. Charles, against the steamship Mont Cenis.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDIRR, District Judge.
About 6 o’clock on the morning of August 26, 1917, the Mont Cenis, a large ocean-going steamship, proceeding to Marseilles, France, from New York, laden with steel, stranded on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, some 2% miles off Villaricos, and within the 3-mile territorial limits of Spain. The St. Charles was an old steamer, en route to Genoa, Italy, and,formed part of a convoy of several ships bound to Marseilles, and was valued at $300,000. The Mont Cenis was under requisition by the French government, which tended to reduce her market value at the time, but she was…
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