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NOLAN v. A. H. BASSE REDERI AKTIESELSKAB

Nos. 399 of 1954, 31 of 1955.

164 F.Supp. 774 (1958)

Joseph W. NOLAN, Charles O. Keagy, Jr., Earl F. Wingert, Ralph W. Belmore, William D. Eveland, James K. Stellos, Charles W. Snyder, Thomas H. Grissom, Frank C. Richardson, Walter E. Shannon, Jr., Bernard M. Baldomar, Virgil W. Keith, Charles F. Bartlett v. A. H. BASSE REDERI AKTIESELSKAB and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., Inc. Charles BARRETT, Master of THE MST LST 287, on his own behalf and on behalf of her Officers and Crew v. A. H. BASSE REDERI AKTIESELSKAB and Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., Inc.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 8, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Weiner, of Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner Joseph Nolan and others.

Eugene R. Lippman, of Krusen, Evans & Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa., for Charles Barrett.

J. Welles Henderson, of Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pa., for Penna. Salt Mfg. Co. and A. H. Basse Rederi Aktieselskab.

KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.

During the night of August 18-19, 1953, the Danish steamship Else Basse, with a cargo of cryolite ore, caught fire and was abandoned by her master and crew at a point in the Gulf of St. Lawrence some 50 miles from Harmon U. S. Air Force Base on St. George's Bay, Newfoundland. Two United States Government vessels cooperated in putting out the fire and in bringing the ship safely into port. These two actions in admiralty, consolidated for trial...

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