BRYAN, District Judge.
The Demosthenes arrived in Hampton Roads confessedly an unseaworthy tanker. Through loose rivets in her bottom — at least 65 of them — sea water had leaked into her cargo. A 13-inch crack in a port bow plate, in the way of the chain locker, had helped to put her down by the head during the storm through which she had passed, and jettison of a part of her cargo was ordered to regain steerage.
She urges the storm as the cause...
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