UNITED STATES v. TUG PARRIS ISLAND

Nos. 251, 253.

215 F.Supp. 144 (1963)

UNITED STATES, as owner of UNITED STATES COAST GUARD VESSEL CHILULA v. TUG PARRIS ISLAND, her engines, boilers, etc., in rem and T-2 TANKER, in rem. UNITED STATES, as owner of United States Coast Guard Vessel Chilula v. The TUG MANIE, her engines, boilers, in rem v. The CARTERET TOWING CO., Inc., in personam, in a cause of collision civil and maritime.

United States District Court E. D. North Carolina, New Bern Division.

February 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Cowen, U. S. Atty., Eastern District of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., Alan Raywid, Attorney, Admiralty & Shipping Section, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for libellants in consolidated actions.

George H. McNeill, Morehead City, N. C., Robert M. Hughes, III, of Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., for claimant Linea de Navegacion Rio S. A., in personam, and tug Parris Island, in rem.

C. R. Wheatly, Jr., Beaufort, N. C., John G. deRoos, of Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for Standard Dredging Corporation, respondent claimant, in rem, T-2 tanker midsection.

George T. Clark, Jr., of Rountree & Clark, Wilmington, N. C., for Carteret Towing Co., in personam, respondent claimant; and, proctor for tug Manie, in rem.

John P. Harper, of Worthington, White & Harper, Norfolk, Va., A. D. Ward, New Bern, N. C., for A. T. Piner, impleaded respondent and impleading petitioner.

L. A. Stith, of Barden, Stith & McCotter, New Bern, N. C., Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, for Standard Dredging Corporation, in personam, impleaded respondent.


LARKINS, District Judge.

These actions arose from the result of a collision which occurred on or about January 13, 1958, in the Harbor of Morehead City, North Carolina, when a T-2 tanker midsection in tow of the Honduran tug "PARRIS ISLAND" and the local harbor tug "MANIE" struck and damaged the moored United States Coast Guard Cutter "CHILULA".

FACTS

The Honduran ocean-going tug "PARRIS ISLAND", owned...

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