The Rhode Island’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 7 district ·

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1. ““The failure to slacken speed in this fog musit be set down as one fault in the steamer. Although the fog was not dense, it was nevertheless evidently such a fog as materially to interfere with the timely observation of other vessels, and therefore increased materially the dangers of navigation. To go at full speed in such a fog is not a compliance with rule 21, which requires steamers in a fog to go at moderate speed. * * * Ho steamer’s speed is moderate in the sense of rule 21 so long as she is going at her ordinary full speed. She is required to moderate and reduce her speed according to the density of the fog and the increased difficulty of discovering danger, and of adopting timely means to avoid it. * * * Without determining whether 8 or 8| knots would or would not be a moderate rate for vessels of much higher ordinary speed in so light a fog as prevailed on the night of this collision, I must hold it not moderate for this steamer, because not moderated or reduced from her ordinary speed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clare v. Providence & S. S. Co.

2. ““The rate of speed at-which the Rhode Island was going in a dense fog, viz., 15 miles per hour, is far beyond that ‘ moderate speed ’ which the rules of navigation permit. This has been so often discussed, and the prior adjudications are so numerous and uniform, that it cannot be deemed longer an operv question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clare v. Providence & S. S. Co.