ISBN: 9780217414777

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Unknown Author, Books Group, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books United-States-Circuit-Courts-of-Appeals-Reports~~Unknown-Author General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sidPring all the circumstances, I think that the llbelants have not shown him to be at fault In anchoring when and where he did. The burden of proof Is upon them. That, in other respects, his navigation up to the time of anchoring was unexceptionable, is not contested. The tug was on hand to render assistance as soon as the St. Nicholas got adrift, and the captain of the St. Nicholas distinctly says that to save the barge was then impossible. It follows, therefore, that the tug is not to blame for the damage done to the St. Nicholas and its cargo. The case of the Excelsior is different. According to the tug's log, which I accept In preference to the vague statements of Capt. Woodhouse, the Excelsior went adrift at 2:20. The tug got under way at 5 o'clock. Two hours and a half is too long for a tug boat to take in getting under way in a case of extrernest need. The difficulties were considerable, but the emergency was great. When the windlass broke down at 2:30. the attempt to repair the donkey engine should have been accompanied by the unshackling of the chain, and the earliest way of escape should have been taken. The process of unshackling, and thus slipping the chain cable, took not over half an hour, I rather think considerably less; and. if it had been undertaken immediately upon the failure of the donkey engine. I think the tug might have reached the Excelsior. I am compelled to say that T do not find the captain's answers concerning this part of the occurrences to be quite frank. He certainly left upon my mind the impression that a large proportion of the time between 2:20 and 5 o'clock was spent in unshackling the chain, whereas the time so spent is shown 1o have been pretty short by the clear and frank testimony of the engineer. Indeed, the captain's testimony upon this p...<

ISBN: 9780217414777

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