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- Title: Poling Russell Inc. v. United States
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 19, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty holding the United States solely liable for a collision on the morning of January 10, 1943, between its ship Dover and the barge Poling Bros. No. 12 in tow of the Motor Tug J. Raymond Russell, and holding the J. Raymond Russell free from fault. The Dover had come through Hell Gate on her way to Staten Island and was passing under the Brooklyn Bridge, slightly to the right of mid-river when she saw the red side light and white towing lights of the tug about three-quarters of a mile away bearing approximately a point on her starboard bow. The Dovers course was set a little to the west of Castle William Light on the northwest corner of Governors Island; her speed through the water was 9 1/2 knots per hour. Upon sighting the Russell to her starboard, the Dover sounded a two-blast signal indicating that it desired a starboard-to-starboard passage. About a minute later, having heard no signal from the tug and having observed the latters red light cross her bow from starboard to more than a point to port, the Dover then sounded a one-blast signal for a port-to-port passage and went 5 to 8 degrees to starboard. Less than a minute after sounding the one-blast signal, and still seeing only the Russells red light and towing lights off to port, the Dover repeated the one-blast signal. Immediately thereafter, the tug commenced closing out her red light and opening up her green, whereupon the Dover instantly went hard right and full astern in an effort to clear but - the vessels being only 200 to 350 feet apart - the collision became inevitable and the Dovers bow struck the barges starboard side about 6 to 10 feet abaft the bow of the barge. Just prior to the collision, while the Dovers engines were going astern, the tug was heard to sound an alarm.