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 920 FEDERAL REPORTER. �whistle, to which the steamer responded, and putting her helm hard a-port ran so far to starboard that she ran upon a buoy onthe northerimiost edge of the channel; that the tug had also ported her helm, but had so little power, and the bark was so badly managed, that although the steamer passed the tug w:thout accident, and although the bow of the bark was drawn out of the way, the stern of the bark swung around, and her port qimrter came into contact with the port side of the steamer, about eight feet from her stern, and seriously damaged her. �The case on behalf of the tug is that she saw the steamer coming up the middle of the channel, about three or four miles off, and having a heavy, deeply-ladened ship in tow, she de- siredjin passing the steamer, to go to the windward, or north- erly side of the channel, and accordingly, when. the steamship ■was a little over a mile off, she gave not one, but two blasts of her whistle; that to this she received no reply, and, being her- self in the middle of the channel, she continued some minutes without changmg her course, in expectation of a reply, when, perceiving that the steamer had already got somewhat to the north of the middle of the channel, she gave one blast of her whistle, at the distance of a half a mile apart, to which the steamer at once responded ; that the helm of the tug and that of the bark were immediately ported, and both tug and tow went gradually to southward, and the helm of the steamer being apparently at thë same time ported, she went off to northward, but was so badly steered that she ran uj)on one of the buoys marking the northernmost edge of the channel, and immediately thereafter took a strong sheer to port, so that, as she passed the tug, her direction was at a considerable angle with the line of the channel, and four men were seen at her wheel putting it over hard a-port ; that the steamer began to yield to the port helm, and by the time she got to the bark, which was being towed 300 feet behind the tug, she had rounded somewhat to starboard, but nevertheless she struck the bark on her port quarter, about 30 feet from her stern, with the anchor of the steamer, which was improperly hang- iiig over the port bow, and considerably damaged the bark; ����