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 EENNEDT V. BTEAMEB SÀBMATIAIT. 913 �■when the captain had removed the chimney from the lamp, lighted it and ran at once on deck, where he held it outover the taffrail. The captain folio wed the mate to the deck im- mediately. �4. The Sarmatian took a licensed Baltimore pilotonboard jnst outside the capes, and from that time until after the col- lision the captain, pilot and second mate were on the bridge attending to their respective duties, and two able seamen were at the bow, one on the starboard and the other on the port side, as lookouts. From the time the pilot came on board the steamer proceeded on her course at the rate of 12| or 13 miles an hour, and did not slacken her speed until just at the moment of the collision. Her deck, on which the lookouts stood, was 20 or 26 feet above the water, and the bridge still higher. As the night then was, a small vessel like the schooner, with her sails hauled down close, and with- out any lights except her regulation side lights, could not be seen for any considerable distance from the steamer, and the schooner was not actually discovered by any one until the torch-light was displayed. Then she was seen by ail five of the persons on watch almost simultaneously. At first the reflection of a light on the masts, sails and rigging was seen by ail, and then for a very short time only the torch itself was seen by the pilot, who stood at the starboard end of the bridge, and by the lookouts. The vessels were so close to- gether that the huU of the steamer intercepted the view of the torch from where the captain and second mate stood on the bridge, and very soon shut it out from the others. As soon as the light was discovered the wheel of the steamer was put to starboard, and her engine backed at fuU speed, but before the course of the steamer could be materially changed, or her speed slackened, she passed along-side the schooner so ilose as to carry away some of the schooner's rigging, but did not injure the hulL No bail was given the steamer from the schooner until after the damage was done. �5. Had the torch-light been exhibited sooner from the schooner, it is not probable the collision would have occurred. �v.2,no.ll— 58 ����