The Maine

Citations

• 153 F. 635
• 1907 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 297

Syllabus

<p>Collision — Steam Vessels Meeting — Mutual Fault.</p> <p>A collision in the East river, near the Brooklyn Bridge, between a barge in tow on the starboard side of the steamer Manhattan, bound up the river to Pier 24 on the Manhattan side, and the steamer Maine, bound from New Bedford to her pier in the North river, held due to the fault of both steamers. The Manhattan held in fault for attempting to pass on the starboard side of the Maine from a head and head position without an agreement, and for stopping and reversing after starboarding her helm on failing to receive an answer to her signal, which threw her directly across the Maine’s course, and the Maine for not answering signals promptly and for excessive speed, hut not being somewhat on the Brooklyn side of the channel as she was required by the presence of other vessels to depart from the East river rule of the state to keep in the middle, and as the narrow channel rule does not apply to those waters.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — -For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 10, Collision, § 40.</p> <p>Signals of meeting vessels, see note to The New York, 30 C. C. A. 630J</p>