HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
On a fair day and with a strong ebb tide under foot, tug Bulley, with eleven light boats, in four tiers, on a hawser of about 20 fathoms (making the flotilla between 500 and 600 feet long), was going down the East River between Manhattan and Blackwell's Island.
Simultaneously tug Socony No. 4, with two light barges (in all 60 feet wide), abreast on a hawser of 30 fathoms, was going the same way, but at much higher speed. Both of these...
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