THE "CRACKSHOT."

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 594

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Willmer, sitting with Commodore A. S. Mackay and Captain D. Dunn, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-River-Sharp bend-Starboardhand rule-Fourfold collision in River Thames off Stoneness-Ebb tide-Plaintiffs' motor vessel Roxburgh Castle bound up; defendants' steamship Crackshot bound down - Motor vessel Empire Seabright and steamship Fraser River following astern of Crackshot - Collision between Roxburgh Castle and Crackshot, followed by collisions between Roxburgh Castle and motor vessel Empire Fabric (not a party to litigation), between Crackshot and Empire Seabright and between Crackshot and Fraser River-Actions brought by Roxburgh Castle against Crackshot and by Crackshot (by way of counterclaim) against Roxburgh Castle, Empire Seabright and Fraser River- Lights of Crackshot and Roxburgh Castle sighted by each other across land at Stoneness-Duty to keep to starboard side of "the fairway or mid-channel" -Meaning of "fairway or mid-channel" -Dispute as to place of collision-Whether subsequent collisions consequent upon first collision-Novus actus interveniens - Whether Roxburgh Castle failed in her duty to ease her speed-Port of London River Bylaws, 1938, Rules 38, 42.