UNITED STATES v. USAF COASTAL CRUSADER

Adm. No. 4432.

210 F.Supp. 430 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America v. The USAF COASTAL CRUSADER, her engines, tackle, appurtenances, etc., and Burton A. Rogers, Jr., Thomas S. Kline, Kenneth E. Sterner, Demetrios M. Kyriakos, Roque Asencio, Harry G. Jones, Harry White, William E. Morris, Wayne M. Heimiller, Leroy F. Elford, Edward D. Kolar, Rex L. Henderson, Marvin P. Phillips, Cleo Copeland, Charles Wedincamp, Melvin J. Gallier, Clifford E. Taggart, Sr., Clayton H. Bruce, James J. O'Hara, Julian S. Mineses, Joseph A. Macedonia, Bayard E. Heimer, Wallace W. Silcox, Jesse A. Morris, James L. Baker, Repert H. Kight, Jerry H. Swearingen and Rexford Dickey.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

November 2, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Tydings, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., and William E. Gwatkin, III, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for libelant.

Richard P. Long, New York City, and Solomon Kaplan, Baltimore, Md., for respondents.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This possessory libel was filed on October 29, 1962, by the United States as owner and operator of the United States Air Force Vessel Coastal Crusader, her engines, tackle, appurtenances, etc., against the vessel, the unlicensed members of her crew and Rexford Dickey, their local port representative. The vessel is an undocumented public vessel of the United States, now lying at the port of Baltimore, Maryland, within the jurisdiction of this...

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