Philtankers, Inc. v. M/V DON CARLOS

FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

SEALS, District Judge.

This cause of action arose and was brought under the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States as a result of a collision in the Houston Ship Channel between the inbound car carrier M/V DON CARLOS and the tanker S/S PHILLIPS TEXAS which was, at the time of the collision, moored at the Crown Central Petroleum Corporation dock. Immediately prior to this collision, the M/V DON CARLOS had met and passed the outbound tanker M/V ALVEGA in a routine port to port passing, following which the DON CAROLOS took an uncontrolled sheer off the…