UNITED STATES v. BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY

Adm. No. 4599.

235 F.Supp. 569 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America v. BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY, and Moran Towing and Transportation Company, Inc.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

November 17, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., Leavenworth Colby, Chief, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Thomas F. McGovern, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for libelant.

Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md. (David R. Owen, Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for respondent Bethlehem Steel Co.

Ober, Williams & Grimes, Baltimore, Md. (Southgate L. Morison, Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for respondent Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

This is an action for declaratory judgment and other relief, based on 33 U.S. C.A. §§ 403 and 406. It arises out of the grounding in navigable waters just north of Brewerton Channel, off Sparrows Point, in the Baltimore Harbor, of a floating dry dock belonging to Bethlehem Steel Company (Bethlehem), which Moran Towing and Transportation Company, Inc. (Moran) had undertaken to tow down the Chesapeake Bay, through the Capes and out to...

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