Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "REX."

(1940) 68 Ll L Rep 143

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Captain W. R. Chaplin, and Captain W. E. Crumplin, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-River-Port to port passing- Collision between motor barge Queen Philippa (with barge lashed to her starboard side) and Swedish steamship Rex in Sea Reach, River Thames - Queen Philippa bound down on her proper (south) side; Rex moving up river from anchorage on southerly side - Starboarding by Queen Philippa-Head of Rex allowed to fall off to port-Attempt by Rex to avoid collision by going full speed ahead and hard-a-porting - Contact between port side of stem of Queen Philippa and starboard bow of Rex.

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