Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "HARTLEPOOL."

(1938) 62 Ll L Rep 117

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Sir Boyd Merriman (President), sitting with Captain A. H. Ryley and Captain G. Curteis, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-River-Anchored vessel-Fog- Collision between steamships Petrel and Hartlepool in Halfway Reach during fog - Petrel swinging to her anchor; Hartlepool bound down - Serious damage to Petrel, vessel having to be beached - Petrel, bound down, anchored soon after entering bank of fog-Method of anchoring - Petrel allowed to swing to anchor on ebb tide -Contact between stem of Hartlepool and starboard side of Petrel, which had not completed her swing and was lying athwart channel-Speed of Hartlepool -Look-out.

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