COLEMAN, Chief Judge.
This is a collision case. The vessels involved were the Esso Delivery No. 13, a tanker barge, owned by the Esso Standard Oil Company, and the Susanne, a pleasure motor boat, owned by libellant, Hamilton C. Davis.
The material facts relative to the collision are as follows: Early in the morning of July 8, 1950, the tanker barge was proceeding up Chesapeake Bay bound for Baltimore with her proper lights showing. She is propelled by Diesel...
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