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 150 faOJQBAL BSPOBTEfi. �The Blub Bonnet. (District Coixrt, S. B. Nm York. Jamiary 9, 1882.) �1. Collision— DuTT of Bteameb on Appboaching I'ug and Tow. �Where a steamer is approaching a tug and tow in a dangerous part of a narrow stream both are liound to exercise special vigilance and caution. The steamer has no right to prooeed unnecessarily, so as to be set possibly by the tide upon the tow's sida of the stream, but should stop betimes, if need be, to allow the tow to pass. �2. Bame— Tug and Tow— Dutt of— Danger Signals. �A tug and tow being in a bend of a narrow stream, and upon the side to vvards which the tide directly sets, should not occupy unnecessarily the full hplf of the stream. If they do so, the tug is bound to give danger signais upon the flrst indication of possible collision, and to change her course betimes and give way as much as possible, and stop if neccssary. �3. Same-t-River Navigation— Both in Fault. �. Where the ateam-tug B. B,. was coming down the Raritan river againat a flood tide with a tow of 14 loaded canal-boats, in all about 95 feet wide by 300 feet long, attadhed to the tug by hawsers 40 fathoms in length, and waa in a bend of the river from 350 to 400 feet wide on the side towards which the flood tide was setting from a straight reach below the bend, and the steamer A. was coming up the river with Ihe tide, each having proper lights and duly signalled by the other when half a mile apart to keep to the right, and where each kept on in fui] view of the other's lights, and both ported at al)out the saine time, but too late to avoid a blowfrom the tug upon the port quarter of the steamer, whereby the course of the latter was so changed as to carry her with the tide agaiust the tow, whereby one of the canal-boats was sunk: Held, — upon con- tradictory testimony as to the place of the collision in the stream, each Vessel clftiming that she was hugging her own side of the river, — that the tow fully covered her own half of the stream, and that both the tug and steamer were in fault. �In Admiralty. �Benedict, Taft e Benedict, ioi iiheWantB. �Beebe, Wilcox d Hobbs, for the Blue Bonnet. �Owen e Gray, for the Steamer Annie. �Brown, D. J. This libel is filed by the owners of the canal -boat Cato to recover damages for the loss of the boat and cargo through a collision on the Earitan river in the evening of April 7/ 1879. �The Cato formed one of 14 boats in tow of the steam-tug Blue Bonnet, bound from New Brunswick to New York, and attaohed by a port and starboard hawser about 40 fathoms long, running to each side of the tow. ihere were three tiers of boats — five in the two forward tiers, and four in the after tier. The Cato was in the head tier, and was the second boat from the port side. They left New Brunswick at about 6 p. m. and reached the place known as the Brick- ��� �