The Penn’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate ·

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1. ““The steamers Ponn and Lord Baltimore were, at the time of the matters averred in the libel, owned by the Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Company, and were under charter to Charles W. Harrison and his assigns, and were being operated by the Washington-Southern Navigation Company, under assignment of the charter party, as passenger boats on the Chesapeake Bay. In July, 1919, the supervising inspector general of the Steamboat Inspection Service of the Department of Commerce ordered a local steamboat •inspector, George L. Taylor, to make stability tests of both vessels. The vessels -were taken to the shipyards of the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation, libelant, at Norfolk, Va., and the stability tests were made under the supervision of Inspector Taylor. The purpose of the tests was to ascertain the stability of the steamers by determining the G. M., or the height of the metacenter above the center of gravity, and thereby determine the seaworthiness of the vessels for the carriage of an ascertained number of passengers. In making the tests, small narrow-gauge level tracks were installed on the decks of the vessels athwartships. Small trucks loaded with weights of given amount were placed on the tracks, which were moved from side to side across the vessel, in order that, when moved to given distances from a center, the deviation from the perpendicular caused by the listing of the vessel through the weight of the loaded trucks might be noted through the use of the plurn”

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