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COMPLAINT OF NAUTILUS MOTOR TANKER CO., LTD.

Civ. A. Nos. 90-2419 (WGB), 91-1015 (WGB).

862 F.Supp. 1260 (1994)

In the Matter of the Complaint of NAUTILUS MOTOR TANKER CO., LTD., as Owner of the M/T BT NAUTILUS for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability. COASTAL (BERMUDA) PETROLEUM LIMITED, Plaintiff, v. James T. NAUGHTON, and Albert G. Ainscough, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 27, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens by John J. Reilly, Charles B. Anderson, Judith K. Braun, Michael L. Sommer, New York City, Goldstein, Till, Lite & Reiken by Andrew J. Goldstein, Newark, NJ, for plaintiff.

Hill, Rivkins, Loesberg, O'Brien, Mulroy & Hayden by Robert E. Daley, Richard Webber, New York City, for defendants.

OPINION

BASSLER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In the early morning of June 7, 1990, after heaving anchor at Stapleton Anchorage in the Port of New York, near the Verrazano Bridge, and scheduled to berth at the terminal of Coastal New York in Bayonne New Jersey, the 811 foot Motor Tanker BT Nautilus ran aground in the Kill van Kull, rupturing the No. 4 starboard cargo tank, and discharging an estimated 230,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel...

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