THE "CHALLENGE."

(1943) 77 Ll L Rep 405

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting With Captain W. E. Crumplin and Captain T. L. Owen, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-Anchored vessels-Collision in dense fog in Long Reach, River Thames, between steamship Nordost and tug Challenge-Both vessels originally bound up river-Allegation by each side that their vessel had already come to anchor on account of the fog and that she was run into by the other vessel in the course of coming to anchor-Impact between stem of Challenge and starboard quarter of Nordost-Claim brought by Nordost- Diametrically opposite stories-Evidence from contemporary documents.