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 IPtliEBY V. BABK KATB IBVINQ. 919 �tice as the local usages of the place, or the general rules of the sea, required. In order to know what the local usagea were she took a licensed pilot on board. Under these cir- cumstances she might keep up her usual speed until some- thing appeared to make it improper. Had the schooner per- formed her duty this speed would not have iuvolved any losB to her. �On the whole, I am satisfied that the decree below was right, and a decree may be entered here dismissing the libel, \srith costs in both courts. ���Applbbt and others ». The Babe Katb Ibvino and Thh Steam-Tuo Aliob m. Eheman. �Bkown and others v. The Steamship Winthropk and Thh Steam-Tog Aliob M. Ehhman. {District Court, D. Maryland. June 1, 1880.) Collision — Negligence — Ratb of Spked. �In Admiralty. �John H. Thomas, for libellants. �Sebastian Brown, and I. Nevett Steele, for respondents. �MoERis, D. J. This collision oecurred off North Point Light, in the Brewerton channel of the Patapsco river, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon of January 13, 1880. The British steamship Winthrope, 1,500 tons, with a cargo of iron ore, had entered the river and was proceeding up the channel for Bal- timore at eight miles an hour. The steam-tug Alice M. Ehr- man, towing the bark Kate Irving, 710 tons, laden with grain, had just left the port of Baltimore, and was proceeding down the channel at about four miles an hour. The channel is about 350 feet wide. �The case on behalf of the steamer Winthrope is that the tug, when about a mile and a-half off, blew one blast of her whistle, indicating that she intended to pass the steamer port to port ; that the steamer responded with one whistle, ported her helm, and kept near the northerly bank of the channel ; that when some 300 or 400 yarda off the tug again blew one ����