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PETITION OF UNITED STATES

No. 278.

237 F.Supp. 434 (1964)

Petition of the UNITED STATES of America and Marine Transport Lines, Inc., as owners of the U.S.N.S. POTOMAC, for exoneration from or limitation of liability.

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

April 8, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Gwatkin, III, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Hugh S. Meredith, Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., for Aviation Fuel Terminals, Inc.

Donald E. Klein, Schwartz & O'Connell, New York City, for claimants Smith and Salopek.

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., for Leonard, Adm'x.

C. Arthur Rutter, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for Alves and others.

Claud Wheatley, Jr., Beaufort, N. C., George H. McNeill, Morehead City, N. C., William K. Rhodes, Jr., Wilmington, N. C., Joseph H. Levinson, Smithfield, N. C., for claimants.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

On September 26, 1961, the USNS POTOMAC, titled in the name of the United States of America, was discharging fuel oil at the Aviation Fuel Terminals in Morehead City, North Carolina. A fire broke out and, followed by several explosions, the vessel was a constructive total loss. After the institution of several actions in the Eastern District of Virginia by allegedly injured seamen employed aboard the vessel, the matters

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