DENMAN, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree awarding damages for an injury to appellant's leg caused on January 23, 1947, while removing a large coiled hawser attached to the bulwark near the stern of the S.S. Robert Parrott. We held the vessel negligent in not stowing the hawser elsewhere in safety before sailing on a winter voyage from Puget Sound to the Orient over a northern sailing circuit when the usual winter storms made it a threat to entanglement...
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