The Persian’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““At the southern entrance to Pollock Rip Slue is stationed the Pollock Rip Light Vessel. From this light vessel to the northward at intervals of about a mile and a half apart are stationed first Bell Buoy No. 1, the Whistling Buoy No. 2, and then the Pollock Rip Shoals Light Vessel. There are shoals on each side of the line between the Pollock Rip Light Vessel and the Bell Buoy No. 1;, on the course of the Pollock Rip Shoals Lightship, there are no shoals to the eastward. All the region to the eastward is open ocean. The Hesperides that night was bound from Boston to New York. Shortly after passing Pollock Rip Shoals Light Vessel the fog became so dense that her pilot decided to anchor. * * * Two anchor lights were properly set, indicating, under rule 2, a vessel more than 150 feet long at anchor, and a fog bell was regularly sounded as required by rule 15, until the collision. There was a strong southeast wind blowing, so that the Hesperides lay heading generally towards the southeást. While so lying at anchor the fog whistle of a steamer approaching from the south was heard, and about 11:36 p. m. the steamer Persian under way came into collision with the Hesperides, hitting her near the stem with the Persian’s bow and causing damage to both vessels. “The Persian that night was bound from Philadelphia to Boston. Her witnesses state that she encountered thick fog before she reached the Pollock Rip Light Vessel. She passed near the light vessel and Bell Buoy No. 1. Her captain”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Persian

2. ““For the captain to have assumed, on seeing one anchor light, that the vessel was a small one and to have instantly started ahead at increased speed under a starboard helm, only changing the course enough to pass a small vessel, was, in my opinion, not navigating with caution until danger of collision was over.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Persian