24 F. 653 | D. Mass. | 1885
These are cross-libels for a collision between the Cunard steam-slhp Marathon and the whaling bark Andrew Hicks, of New Bedford. The collision occurred in a thick fog in the Atlantic ocean, in latitude 50 deg. 81 min. N, longitude 22 deg. 51 min. .W., at about 5 o’clock of the afternoon of July 1, 1882. The wind was light, from the south-west, and the sea smooth. The Hicks was cruising for whales. She was close-hauled on the starboard tack, her course being S. S. E. The Marathon was on a voyage from Liverpool to Boston. Her course before the collision was W. by N. She heard and saw nothing of the Hicks, and took no measures to avoid her, until they were so close together that the collision was inevita
In the suit against the Marathon, an interlocutory decree is to be entered for the libelants; the libel of the Cunard Steam-ship Company against the owners of the Hicks is to be dismissed, with costs.