Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "DOLABELLA."

(1943) 77 Ll L Rep 292

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Captain A. H. Ryley and Captain T. L. Owen, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-Convoy-Fog-Alteration of course -Collision between steamship Nailsea Manor and motor vessel Dolabella in Atlantic Ocean in dense fog-Vessels in same convoy-Convoy ordered to alter course to port-Porting by Nailsea Manor (leading vessel in fourth column)-Porting by Dolabella (second vessel in third column) delayed until it was seen from the fog buoy of the vessel ahead that she was making her turn-Colliding vessels sighted by each other very close to, with Nailsea Manor on starboard quarter of Dolabella- Collision then unavoidable.

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