CHASE, Circuit Judge.
When the M/V Silvercypress which was owned and operated by the respondent was discharging cargo at Ilo Ilo, P.I., on January 13, 1937, while on a voyage from New York to points in the Far East, a fire started at the No. 2 auxiliary Diesel engine on the starboard side of the engine room. It could not be brought under control and soon the ship was burning rapidly. The vessel was destroyed and so was a
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