THE "DOMINION MONARCH."

(1942) 73 Ll.L.Rep. 229

COURT OF APPEAL.

Before Lord Justice Scott, Lord Justice MacKinnon and Lord Justice Goddard, sitting with Captain H. T. Pritchard, R.N., and Captain W. P. Townshend, R.N.R., Nautical Assessors.

Collision - Lights - Seamanship - Collision between steamship Fairwater and motor vessel Dominion Monarch in English Channel-Fairwater on course of 259 deg.; Dominion Monarch on course of 74 deg.- Both vessels sailing without lights- Dominion Monarch seen by Fairwater at distance of about one mile-Fairwater seen by Dominion Monarch at distance of about half a mile-Starboarding by Fairwater-Porting by Dominion Monarch -Lights not immediately switched on by either vessel-Contact between starboard side of Dominion Monarch and port bow of Fairwater at angle leading forward on Dominion Monarch-Vessels' courses determined by Admiralty routeing instructions - Whether Dominion Monarch entitled to assume that Fairwater was proceeding in same direction-Applicability of Collision Regulations in time of war-Navigation and Anchor Lights Order, 1939.