NEPTUNE TRANSPORTATION CORP. v. THE BARTOW

No. 180-271.

158 F.Supp. 45 (1956)

NEPTUNE TRANSPORTATION CORP., Libelant, v. THE Tug BARTOW, her engines, etc. and Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., Claimant-Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Hammerman, New York City, for libelant.

Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy, New York City, for claimant-respondent.


THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.

This is a proceeding in admiralty by the owner of the steel tank barge Varick against her tow for damages to the barge by reason of the tow's negligence.

The barge and her tow left Stamford, Connecticut, on October 25, 1953, after discharging her cargo of bunker oil and headed for Bayonne, N. J. via Long Island Sound. It proceeded without incident in tow behind the Tug Bartow on about 75 fathoms of hawser. Shortly after 2...

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