TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY v. M/V DUCHESS

No. 94-1727-CIV-T-23C.

65 F.Supp.2d 1279 (1997)

TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, and Westchester Fire Insurance Co., Intervening Plaintiff, v. M/V DUCHESS, In rem, and BT Straits, Inc., In Personam, Defendants/Third Party Plaintiff, v. Pilot Lambert W. Ware, Third Party Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Florida.

June 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lance Sheldon Hamilton, Holland & Knight, LLP, Tampa, FL, for Tampa Port Authority, Body corporate and politic by and under the laws of the State of Florida.

Donald Lee Craig, E. Tyron Brown, Butler, Burnette & Pappas, Tampa, FL, for Westchester Fire Insurance Company, as subrogee of the Tampa Port Authority, et al. fka International Insurance Company.

Nathaniel G.W. Pieper, Lau Lane, Pieper, Conley & McCreadie, Tampa, FL, for BT Straits, Inc., M/V Duchess.

Margaret Diane Mathews, Anthony John Cuva, Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Lambert M. Ware, Pilot.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

JENKINS, United States Magistrate Judge.

This cause comes on for consideration of an admiralty matter brought pursuant to Rule 9(h), Fed.R.Civ.P. in connection with an allision on December 25, 1992 involving the vessel M/V DUCHESS ("DUCHESS") and the northwest corner of the Robert E. Knight Pier ("Pier") owned by the Tampa Port Authority ("TPA").1

TPA brings a claim of negligence against DUCHESS...

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