THE "BRIAN BORU."

(1930) 37 Ll L Rep 159

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.(DIVISIONAL COURT.)

Before Lord Merrivale (President) and Mr. Justice Hill, sitting with Captain Owen Jones and Captain H. C. Birnie, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision between sailing barges Gladys (in tow of tug Barnes) and Brian Boru in Blackwall Reach, River Thames - Brian Boru tacking up river - Gladys, navigating on south side of mid-channel, gradually overtaking Brian Boru - Sudden rounding by Brian Boru into Gladys -Held, that although the Gladys was proceeding up river in her wrong water the cause of the collision was the manoeuvre of the Brian Boru in throwing herself across the course of the Gladys - Port of London River By-laws, 1914-1926, Rules 32, 33, 37 and 38-Appeal dismissed.