SOPER, Circuit Judge.
On February 3, 1946, in Hampton Roads, Virginia, William Thomas Burch, a purser on board the S.S. MESH KNOT, a ship owned by the United States, was totally and permanently injured by the negligent fall of a lifeboat which he was attempting to board. More than ten years later, on April 25, 1956, he filed the libel in the pending suit against the United States under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 741-752, to secure a decree...
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