The Craster Hall’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““Now, with the long experience the court has had with this coast and the dangers of its navigation, we are very clear that this fine vessel was in a highly hazardous situation. Twenty-four hours, or half of twenty-four hours, two hours even, might have made it impossible to extricate her from that position with all the power which could have been exerted, and hers would have been the fate of the melancholy list of ships which have gone ashore on these treacherous sands, known not as the learned proctors for libelant would term it, ‘The Norwegian Graveyard,’ but ‘The Graveyard- of the Atlantic.’ * * * She was relieved in the very nick of time. Next day the wind changed to the east, and the Atlantic rollers, with nothing to impede them between Tybee sands and the coast of Morocco, would liave soon made sad work of the Craster Hall. A day later it is quite doubtful that she would have gotten off at all.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Craster Hall