BRIGHT, District Judge.
The respondent, appearing specially, asks this court to decline jurisdiction of this libel, brought by the crew of the M/T Victoria, to recover for the salvage of that vessel, and to dismiss the libel.
The libel alleges that the ship, while on voyage from South America to Edgewater, New Jersey, was twice torpedoed on April 17th 1942, about 340 miles east of Cape Hatteras; that the master ordered the ship abandoned, and the crew took...
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