The Copperfield

CARR, District Judge.

The facts of this case may be stated in short as follows:

On August 25, 1919, the) four-másted schooner Copperfield left Mobile, Ala., on her maiden voyage, bound for Alicante, Spain, loaded with some 550,000 feet of pine lumber in her hold and on deck. She proceeded on her voyage until September 8th, when she encountered such weather that she attempted to make Key West for an anchorage until the. weather settled. No pilot coming aboard, the master tried, on the 9th, .to beat ihto Key West Roads for anchorage; at 1:30 p. m., anchored with the port anchor; at 6 p. m., let…