CABINS TANKER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. M/V THE RIO MARACANA

No. 7793.

182 F.Supp. 811 (1960)

CABINS TANKER INDUSTRIES, INC., owner of the Steamship THE CABINS, and Terminal Tanker Industries, Inc., bareboat charterer, as its interest may appear, Libellants, v. M/V THE RIO MARACANA, her engines, etc., in rem and Compania Nacional De Navegacao Casteriro Patrimonio, her owner, in personam, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

March 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., for libellants.

Vandeventer, Black & Meredith, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.


WALTER, E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In cross-libels we are called upon to determine the responsibility for a collision between the Cabins, hereinafter referred to as "Cabins", and the Rio Maracana, hereinafter referred to as "Rio", which occurred in the general vicinity of the Maryland Pilot Boat at approximately 2106 on November 16, 1956, when off the Cape Henry light.

The Cabins is a T-2 type tanker of 10,172 gross and 6,134 net tons. She is

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