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TIGER SHIPPING COMPANY, S.A. v. TUG CARVILLE

Civ. A. No. 240-73-N.

381 F.Supp. 1340 (1974)

TIGER SHIPPING COMPANY, S.A., Plaintiff, v. The TUG CARVILLE, in rem, and Allied Towing Corporation, in personam, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

As Amended November 11, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Hughes, III, of Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff.

Morton H. Clark of Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The S. S. SONIC is a large collier, 748 feet in length and 109 feet in beam. On the night in question she left her coaling pier at Lambert's Point in Norfolk near midnight, partially laden with coal, to anchor in Anchorage "B" (see appended chart). The weather was bad; a strong westerly wind of 30-35 knots tended to blow her out of the channel, despite her draft of 35 feet aft and 26 feet forward, unless...

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