THE GERBEVILLER


34 F.2d 825 (1929)

THE GERBEVILLER.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

On Apportionment of Salvage Award September 30, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goodwin, Proctor, Field & Hoar, of Boston, Mass., for libelant.

Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, of Boston, Mass., for petitioner and cargo claimant.


MORTON, District Judge.

This is a case of salvage. The Gerbeviller is a five-masted schooner. On November 27, 1928, while on a voyage from Newport News to Newfoundland with a cargo of coal, she got into trouble near the south end of Georges Bank, about 30 miles southeast by east of the Nantucket Lightship. A northwest gale was blowing, she had lost some of her sails, she was leaking, and she signaled for help. The steam trawler Widgeon saw the signals and stood by...

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