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IN RE BARRACUDA TANKER CORPORATION

Nos. 102, 103, 104, Docket 32377, 32379, 32380.

409 F.2d 1013 (1969)

In the Matter of the Complaint of BARRACUDA TANKER CORPORATION as Owner of the S/T TORREY CANYON and Union Oil Company of California for exoneration from or limitation of liability, Plaintiffs-Appellees, The UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, the Republic of France, and the States of Guernsey, Claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Symmers, Fish & Warner, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee, Union Oil Company of California.

Hill, Betts, Yamaoka, Freehill & Longcope, New York City (Edwin Longcope, Allan J. Berdon, New York City, of counsel), for claimants-appellants.

Before WATERMAN and MOORE, Circuit Judges, and BONSAL, District Judge.

BONSAL, District Judge:

This appeal concerns the S/T TORREY CANYON, a tanker which grounded off the coast of England on March 18, 1967, and eventually broke up and sank after being bombed and burned by aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The TORREY CANYON's cargo, 119,328 tons of crude oil, was discharged into the Atlantic Ocean and substantial amounts found their way to the beaches on both sides of the English Channel.

The TORREY CANYON's registered owner was...

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