Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "LAPWING."

(1940) 67 Ll.L.Rep. 51

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Capt. H. C. Birnie, Elder Brother of Trinity House.

Collision-Starboard-hand rule-Collision in Sea Reach, River Thames, between motor barge Pudge, bound down, and steamship Lapwing, bound up-Vessels approaching starboard to starboard in northern half of mid-channel (Lapwing's water)-Starboarding by Pudge, followed by hard-a-starboarding by Lapwing-Porting by Pudge-Full astern by Lapwing-Contact between stem of Lapwing and starboard side of Pudge-Pudge sunk-Poor visibility- Whether speed of Lapwing excessive- Duty to sound fog signals-Port of London River, By-laws, 1938, Rule 38.

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