The Transfer No. 11

Citations

• 130 F. 1019
• 1904 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 288

Syllabus

<p>1. Collision — Stationaby Tug and Deleting Schoonee — Failube or Tug to Move.</p> <p>A transfer tug, with a car float on each side, which was lying with her engines still off Ward’s Island, to permit a schooner coming through Hell Gate to pass, held in fault for a collision between such schooner and one of the floats, where, although she was rightfully on that side of the channel, and stopped in due time, the schooner was becalmed and helpless, owing to the dying out of the wind, and drifted for a considerable time before striking the float, giving the tug, which saw her condition, time to have moved out of her way.</p>