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THE SNUG HARBOR

No. 2929.

40 F.2d 27 (1930)

THE SNUG HARBOR. UNITED STATES v. EASTERN TRANSP. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 8, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. H. Rumble, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Paul W. Kear, U. S. Atty., of Norfolk, Va., M. H. Avery, Admiralty Atty., U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C., and J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for the United States.

Edward R. Baird, Jr., and George M. Lanning, both of Norfolk, Va. (Baird White & Lanning, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellees.

Before WADDILL, PARKER, and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

On August 15, 1920, the steamship Snug Harbor, owned and used by the United States, and operated by the Shipping Board solely as a merchant vessel, while on a voyage from Baltimore, Md., to Portland, Me., with a carload of coal, came into collision with the barge Pottsville in tow of the tug Covington and sank in Block Island Sound, at a point of 4½ miles east by north of Montauk Point Light. The Snug Harbor, a steel vessel, was abandoned...

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