THE "LOCHMONAR" AND THE "EMPIRE NUGGET."

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 251

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain A. H. Ryley and Captain G. C. H. Noakes, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Convoy - Helm action taken to avoid vessel ahead - Risk of collision with vessels in adjoining column - Look-out - Speeds - Collision between plaintiffs' steamship Sovac and first defendants' motor vessel Lochmonar in Atlantic Ocean - Sovac third vessel in sixth column from port of eastbound convoy - Lochmonar third vessel in seventh column - Second defendants' steamship Empire Nugget second vessel in eighth column - Vessel ahead of Empire Nugget "not under command" - Avoiding port helm action taken by Empire Nugget - Port helm action, and subsequent starboard helm action, taken by Lochmonar to avoid Empire Nugget - Impact between port bow of Lochmonar and starboard quarter of Sovac - Action brought by Sovac against Lochmonar and Empire Nugget - Counterclaim by Lochmonar against Sovac and Empire Nugget - Whether Empire Nugget negligent in maintaining her port wheel and in failing to ease her speed - Look-out on Lochmonar - Duty of Lochmonar to use her twin screws - Look-out on Sovac - Green light switched on just before collision.