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161 U.S. 459, 16 S. Ct. 516, 40 L. Ed. 771, 1896 U.S. LEXIS 2178
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
DecidedMarch 2, 1896
DocketNos. 555 and 570
StatusPublished
Cited by138 cases

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Opinion

Mr. Justice Brown

delivered the opinion of the court.

There are two quéstions involved in this case: first, whether the tug Talisman was guilty of a fault contributing to the collision ; andj second, whether the Delaware is exonerated from liability under the act of February 13, 1893, known as the Harter Act, by the fact that her owners had used due diligence to make her seaworthy, and provide her with competent officers and crew.

1. Gedney Channel, in which the collision took place, is a dredged passage about 1100 feet in width, running from the open ocean in a direction about W. NW. £ W., and constituting the main entrance to New York harbor. It is defined by *462 red buoys, bearing even numbers, along its northerly side, at intervals of 2000 feet, and corresponding black buoys, bearing odd numbers, on the southerly side, at the same distance apart. Two iron can buoys, sometimes called fairway buoys, the northerly one red and the southerly one black, mark the outer entrance to the channel. About a mile out to sea beyond the channel entrance an automatic whistling buoy marks the prolongation of the central axis of the channel. Directly outside the entrance is located the station pilot boat, which anchors near black buoy No. 1, and sends out small boats to take off pilots who have been taking vessels to sea through the channel. Within the bar at the other end of the channel the water widens and the Swash Channel diverges from the main ship channel, as shown in the following diagram:

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