Cardali v. A/S Glittre

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, Cardali, was one of a group of carpenters which was engaged in building beds for a deck cargo of locomotives on M/S Fernleaf, while the vessel lay, starboard side to a pier, at Port Newark, New Jersey, on September 19, 1958. In arranging for the on-loading of the locomotives, it became necessary to ship the Fernleaf’s regular accommodation ladder and, for going aboard or leaving the vessel, to use, instead, a “brow gangway” from the pier to the top of the bulwark on the starboard side of the vessel and a set of steps or short ladder leading from the top…