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JACKSONVILLE SHIPYARDS, INC. v. A VESSEL HONG KONG CLIPPER

Civ. A. No. 66-579.

309 F.Supp. 1196 (1970)

JACKSONVILLE SHIPYARDS, INC., Charleston Division, a South Carolina Corporation, Plaintiff, v. A VESSEL HONG KONG CLIPPER of Orient Overseas Lines, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., and Overseas Maritime Co., Inc., a Corporation, Defendants. OVERSEAS MARITIME CO., Inc., Claimant and Third Party Plaintiff, v. LATEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Third Party Defendant. LATEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, as Owner of the Dredge "NATCHEZ" v. Arthur J. JENKINS, Third Party Defendant. OVERSEAS MARITIME CO., Inc., Claimant and Third Party Plaintiff, v. Arthur J. JENKINS, Third Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

January 27, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Allston Moore, Jr., Moore, Mouzon & McGee, Charleston, S. C., for the Hong Kong Clipper and Overseas Maritime Co.

A. T. Smythe, Buist, Buist, Smythe & Smythe, Charleston, S. C., Donald M. Waesche, Jr., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for Latex Construction Co.

D. A. Brockinton, Jr., Brockinton & Brockinton, Charleston, S. C., and Edward R. Downing, Miami, Fla., for Arthur J. Jenkins.

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND ORDER

DONALD RUSSELL, District Judge.

At 0840 hours on the morning of Sunday, August 7, 1966, the steamship HONG KONG CLIPPER struck and sank a floating drydock which was permanently moored on the western bank of the Cooper River, in the Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, doing considerable damage to the drydock, an adjacent pier and a United States Navy tugboat in the drydock.

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