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 GBEBNMAN V. STBAU-BOAT NABBAGANBETT. Se5. �into the river, and, -when her stem was a few feet clear of the end of the pier, her bow came in contact with the starboard side of the City Point, a little f orward of herwheel-house. She ■was very nearly if not quite stationary in the water at the in- stant of the collision, while the City Point was running at her f ull speed, about 10 miles an hour. The effect of the collision ■was that the guard and deck of the City Point ■were broken from forward of the paddle-box to the after gangway. The face of the -wheel-house -was carfied a-way, and her shaft was displaced and her machinery entirely disabled. The libellants claim damages to the amount of $17,000. �The Narragansett was injured by having her stem knocked to starboard. Otherwise she sustained no damage. The place of the collision is ûxed with a considerable degree of certainty by its being a little more than the Narragansett's length ont from the pier, and also by the faot that the donkey boiler which fell from the City Point was f ound to be 276 feet out from the end of the pier. The evidence also shows that the City Point was coming up the river at about that distance from the outer line of the piers She put her wheel hard a-starboard almost immediately before the collision, but not long enough before materially to affect her distance out into the river. As she struck the Narragansett she put her wheel to port. This movement and the headway she stiU retained carried her into pier 36, where she made fast. �The libel alleges that while the City Point was prooeeding up the river her master saw, on his starboard bow, the Nar- ragansett lying on the south side of pier 33, and when the City Point was about opposite pier 30 the Narragansett gave one long blast of her steam-whistle, indicating that she was about to leave her pier, to which whistle the City Point instantly responded by giving two short and distinct blasts of her steam-whistle, a signal to the Narragansett not to attempt to cross the course of the City Point; that the Narra- gansett did not answer the two blasts of the steam-whistle of the City Point, but, very shortly thereafter, put her wheels in motion and started forward to leave her slip on a course ����