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GULF OIL CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 1805, 1802.

295 F.Supp. 696 (1969)

GULF OIL CORPORATION, owner of SS GULFOIL, Libellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent. Petition of S. E. GRAHAM CO., as owner, and Graham Transportation Co., Inc., as bareboat charterer of the M/V S. E. GRAHAM, for exoneration from or limitation of liability.

United States District Court D. Rhode Island.

January 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo F. Glynn, of Glynn & Dempsey, Boston, Mass., Morgan J. Burke, Jr., of Dorsey, Burke & Griffin, New York City, for libellant.

William E. Gwatkin, III, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward P. Gallogly, U. S. Atty., Providence, R. I., for respondent.

Benjamin F. Stahl, Jr., of Clark Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young, Philadelphia, Pa., Harold E. Staples, and Benjamin A. Smith, of Tillinghast, Collins & Tanner, Providence, R. I., for petitioner.

OPINION

DAY, Chief Judge.

These proceedings in admiralty arise out of a collision between the M/V S. E. Graham and the S. S. Gulfoil on August 7, 1958, between 6:52 A.M. and 6:53 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Saving Time) in a dense fog in the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, between Bull Point, Jamestown and Fort Adams, Newport, in the State of Rhode Island. As a result of said collision and the resulting fire, eighteen persons were killed, many persons were...

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