The Djerissa’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““About midday of the 11th of June, 1918, the Djerissa, a large ocean-going ■steamship, 350 feet long, 50 feet beam, 25 feet deep, was anchored in the waters of James river, Newport News harbor, about half a mile west of the ■Chesapeake & Ohio Railway passenger pier, and the Newa, also a large ocean steamship, 305 feet long, 43 feet beam, 23 feet deep, was anchored about 2 o’clock on the evening of the 12th of June, about a quarter of a ■mile to the westward of the Djerissa. While lying at anchor, about 9:30 on the night of the 12th of June, the Newa, in a sudden and violent storm, ■dragged into, and collided with the Djerissa, causing serious injury to both vessels. The Djerissa relies on the negligence and failure of the officers of the Newa to exercise good seamanship in anchoring and handling their vessel; whereas, the Newa insists that she was without fault and that the accident was inevitable as a result of the violence of the storm, the dangers of which ■they could not reasonably have anticipated or provided against. “Prior to and until a few minutes before the impact, the Djerissa had out her port anchor on 30 fathoms of chain, and the Newa her starboard anchor on 50 fathoms. Shortly before the storm, the Djerissa paid out 30 fathoms aduitional chain, and 15 or 20 minutes before the collision, and as the storm .approached, dropped her starboard anchor on 45 fathoms of chain. The Newa, preceding the storm, had 50 fathoms on her starboard anchor, ana .paid out 35 fathoms”

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