SWAN, Circuit Judge.
On the early morning of January 26, 1933, the steamship Black Gull, bound for Antwerp and other European ports, proceeded down New York Harbor in charge of Hugh McIntyre, a Sandy Hook pilot. Shortly before 5 a. m. the pilot boat Sandy Hook was sighted at the outer pilot station near Ambrose Channel Light and was signaled by the steamer at McIntyre's request to take him off. There was a 45-mile gale from the northeast, and waves were running as...
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