F. O. Matthiessen & Wiechers Sugar Refinery Co. v. The Ludvig Holberg
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libels for damages. Libels by the F. 0. Matthiessen and Wiechers Sugar Refinery Company and by owners of the bark against the steam-ship Ludvig Holberg, impleaded with the steam-tug Leonard Richards, for damages resulting from collision.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
On the 24th of May, 1887, as the bark Quickstep was coming up the lower bay in tow of the tug Leonard Richards, upon a hawser from 70 to 100 fathoms long, she came into collision with the steam-ship Ludvig Holberg on her way out to sea. She was struck on her port quarter, a little aft of the mizzen chains, by the steamer’s port bow or stem, at an angle of about three points, and a large hole stove in, through which she speedily filled with water. Before sinking she was towed by the tug a few lengths only, to the fiats on the west bank, about *915one-quarter of a mile below buoy No. 11. The above…
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