The Teaser’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““The barge was in tow, on a hawser of about 45 or 50 fathoms in length, of the steam tug Teaser, and bound from Newport, R. I., to Hoboken, Ñ. J., through the channel between Blackwell’s Island and New York. The Transfer No. 14, with a float on each side, was proceeding through the channel from Jersey City to Harlem. The collision happened about 5 o’clock in the morning. It was before dawn, while the vessel’s lights were burning, and the navigation governed thereby. The tide was ebb, and the weather clear. * * * There is no material conflict in the testimony as to the tugs having been substantially in a head and head position to each other for some time as they approached, and. it was the duty of each to port her helm and pass the other on the port side. The distance between Blackwell’s- Island and the New York shore varies from 750 to 800 feet, and, allowing a reasonable margin for navigation away from the shore, there is an average navigable channel in the vicinity of the collision, somewhere in the neighborhood of Sixty-First street, of about 600 feet. Of this space, No. 14, with her floats, occupied about 100 feet. The Teaser was about 25 feet wide, and the barge about 36 feet wide.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Transfer No. 14