PER CURIAM.
The libelant was the owner of a tug, and filed its libel to recover for salvage services to the steamer William Rockefeller, which caught fire at her wharf at Constable Hook, N. J., on August 9, 1929. The Rockefeller was a tanker, some of whose tanks had been discharged, and she was for this reason more inflammable than if they had all been full. At about 7 o'clock in the morning one of her empty tanks exploded, and she caught fire. Several tugs nearby...
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