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PACIFIC-ATLANTIC S. S. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 6745.

81 F.Supp. 777 (1948)

PACIFIC-ATLANTIC S. S. CO. (E. J. LAVINO & CO. et al., Interveners) v. UNITED STATES. THE OREGON.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, at Norfolk.

August 12, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, and Baird, White & Lanning, of Norfolk, Va., for Pacific-Atlantic S. S. Co.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Vandeventer & Black, of Norfolk, Va., for E. J. Lavino & Co., Inc.

Dow & Symmers, of New York City, and Hughes, Little & Seawell, of Norfolk, Va., for Reconstruction Finance Corp.

George R. Humrickhouse, U. S. Atty., of Richmond, Va., Alfred T. Cluff, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

PAUL, District Judge.

This action involves a collision between the New Mexico, a battleship of the United States Navy, and the Oregon, a merchant vessel owned by the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company. The collision occurred about 4:42 or 4:43 in the morning of December 10, 1941, at a point in the Atlantic Ocean about forty miles approximately due south of Nantucket Shoals Lightship.

The New Mexico, a 1918-class battleship, approximately 600 feet long on the...

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