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 634 PEDKBAL BEPOBTEB. �says he made out the sehooner's sails with the aid of a glasg from the main bridge, directly ahead, and about three-fourths of an hour afterwards saw her red light one and one-half points on the steamer'a port bow; that he was steering by the Polar star, and the steamer's course was N. J W. and he says the sehooner's proper course down the bay from her then position was S. by W. He says that if the vessels had continued the courses they were then on they would bave passed port to port a mile apart; that when they got within a mile of each other, not fearing a collision, but from extra caution, he ordered the steamer's helm to port and continued under a port helm until the schooner was several points on bis port bow, and about abreast of him, and about a quarter of a mile oflf, when, seeing both the lights of the schooner, he ordered his helm. hard a-port and ran half a mile under the hard a-port helm, having run about two miles in ail from the time he first put his helm to port up to the time of the col- lision, and having gone oflf in ail seven and one-half points from his original course; that is to say, half a point onlyless than a right angle. �The first mate of the steamer was on the skeleton bridge, and his testimony as to the intervais between the orders to port and to hard a-port the steamer's helm is somewhat differ- ent. He says he saw the schooner first four or five miles off, nearly ahead, and then saw her red light three-fourths of a point on the steamer's port bow ; that he called to the pilot, who said, "It is ail right, she is showing us her red light, and is on our port bow;" that the vessels continued to show red to red until five minutes before the collision; then the helm was ported, and when the steamer had gone her length the pilot ordered it hard a-port; that the steamer was going under the hard a-port helm when he saw the sehooner's green light, and the collis- ion occurred shortly after. �The wheelsman of the steamer also says he saw the sehooner's red light; that his attention was called to it by the lookout singing out "A light on our port bow;" that the order was then given to him to port, and immediately after hard a-port ; that the steamer fell off from N. by E. to E. ^ N., ��� �