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COMMONWEALTH ELEC. CO. v. WOODS HOLE

No. 84-1591.

754 F.2d 46 (1985)

COMMONWEALTH ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. WOODS HOLE, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1985.

Rehearing Denied March 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank H. Handy, Jr., with whom Kneeland, Kydd & Handy, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendant, appellant.

Timothy R. McHugh, Boston, Mass., with whom Jerome V. Flanagan and Hoch & Flanagan, P.C., Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BREYER, ALDRICH and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

On April 5, 1980 the Nantucket ferry, the 213 foot steamship NAUSHON, owned and operated by defendant Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, departed Nantucket at 7:00 a.m., bound west for Woods Hole. In Vineyard Sound she developed boiler feed-pump problems, and lost some, and eventually all power. At 10:35 a.m. her master, E.B. Jackson, ordered the starboard...

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