COMPLAINT OF COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE

Civ. No. 914-71.

392 F.Supp. 973 (1975)

Complaint of COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE, Plaintiff, as owner of the S. S. ANTILLES.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

April 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vicente M. Ydrach, Hartzell, Ydrach, Mellado, Santiago, Perez & Novas, Hato Rey, P. R., for petitioner.

Jose Antonio Fuste, Jiminez & Fuste, San Juan, P. R., for claimants.


OPINION

BEEKS,* District Judge:

This case arises from the grounding of the French passenger liner ANTILLES on an uncharted reef in the Grenadine Islands of the Caribbean Sea. The grounding occurred at 1621 hours on January 8, 1971 as ANTILLES was attempting a westerly passage of the channel that is bounded by the Island of Mustique to the South, and the group of rocks known as The Pillories, to the North.

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