Hall v. The Alene’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The above libel was filed by the owners of the three-masted schooner John W. Hall against the steamship Aleñe to recover the damages for the loss of the schooner through a collision with the Aleñe at about 2 p. m. of May 5, 1895, at sea, about 140 miles west of Cape Henry. The schooner sank a few minutes after the collision, and became a total loss. The steamer was an iron screw propeller, about 320 feet long, bound from New York for the West Indies, and until a few moments before the collision was upon a course heading south. The schooner was bound for New York, and was sailing close-hauled on, the starboard tack, with the, wind from the northeast, and heading about north by west. There was some fog during the half hour before the collision, and the steamer sounded her fog whistles regularly. On hearing these whistles, the schooner gave a fog signal of a single blast, indicating, under the international rules, that she was on the starboard tack. Her whistle was heard and located by those on the steamer as a little upon their port bow. A second signal, heard afterwards, seemed somewhat broader off the port bow, and thereupon the master, who, had just come upon the bridge, ordered the helm of the steamer to be ported. Very soon afterwards, and, as it is claimed, before the port wheel had turned the steamer’s head to starboard, the schooner came in sight, apparently about 1,500 feet distant, and from half a point to a point on the steamer’s port bow; and she was seen to be on ”

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   e.g. Hall v. Alene