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NICHOLAS E. VERNICOS SHIPPING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

223 F.Supp. 116 (1963)

NICHOLAS E. VERNICOS SHIPPING COMPANY, Limited, as Owner of THE VERNICOS MANOS and Loucas Matsas & Sons, as Owner of THE KENTAVROS, Libellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 24, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zock, Petrie, Sheneman & Reid, New York City, for libellants (John Sheneman, New York City, of counsel).

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, New York City, for respondent (Walter L. Hopkins, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, New York City, of counsel).

MacMAHON, District Judge.

Libellants, nationals of the Kingdom of Greece, sue the United States under the Public Vessels Act (46 U.S.C. § 781 et seq.), to recover for salvage services which their tugs allegedly rendered to two ships of the United States Navy in St. George's Bay, Piraeus, Greece, on October 29 and 30, 1956.

On the evening of October 29, 1956, the U.S.S. ALTAIR and the U.S.S. MERCURY, store ships attached to the United States Sixth Fleet...

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