CHASE, Circuit Judge.
On June 1, 1933, nitrate of soda in bags was delivered to the respondent's ship Ida at Hopewell, Va., for carriage to Alexandria, Egypt. Instead of proceeding directly to Alexandria, the ship called in succession at New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, Mobile, Venice, Trieste, and Fiume and arrived at Alexandria on July 29, 1933. She then began to discharge the nitrate, and had not finished when, on the evening of August 3d, a fire broke out in No...
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