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 THE BARK lOVETAND. 105 �The Bark Lovetano, her Cargo, etc. �{District Court, 8. D. New York. November, 1880,. �SALVAiB — DAMAGKa—FREiaHT PkEPAID— APPOBTIONMBNT. �The Norwegian bark L. collided with the British sWp R. a short distance to the southward of Nantucket South Bhoal light-ship, ■whereby she lost everything above deck and was thereupon abandoned by her crew. Net long afterwards, in the morning of April 17, 1880, she was sighted by the British steamer T., and the master of the T., after putting a crew aboard the L. and making three hawsers fast to her with difflculty, the sea being rough and the wind high, com- menced towing. Two of the hawsers parted at midnight, and the third slipped, thus compelling the T. to lay by the L. till dayligtit. The hawsers being again made fast after much difflculty, owing to their having fouled the T. 's propeller, the towing was again resumed in the aftemoon, and the T., without further accident or delay, reached Bandy Hook on the morning of the 19th with the L. in tow. The service rendered, which was attended with difflculty and danger to the crew, occupied the T. 51 hours. The distance towed was 325 miles in 37 hours, the average speed being about e% knots. Her maximum speed in ballast was 12)^ knots, and her speed at the time of discover- ing the wreck about 10 knots. �The T. was a freighting steamer of 1,547 tons, runnîngbetween Lon- don and New York, at the time bound from Cardifl to New York in ballast, with a crew of 36 men, having 18 others (cattlemen) on board who had gone out on her last voyage in charge of cargo. The wind during the time of towing and before the discoverywas nearly ahead. The L. was 404 tons register, valued it $1,400 ; her cargo at $22,500, In good order when dlscovered and so dellvered. Her freight was valued at about $1,600, part of which had been prepaid. When dlscovered she had 30 Inches of water in her hold, and was not In a sintlng condition. �Heli, that while the clalm of the libellants for more than one- half of the value of the property saved Is very extravagant, and not in accordance with the present praetice of admiralty courts In similar cases, still the case Is one of great merit, the bark be- ing derelict, and the prlnciple should be foUowed, glving a fair and liberal reward for the time and labor, the dangers encoun- tered, and the property saved. �Port y. Jones, 19 How. 160. �That the sum of 17,000 is a proper award ; $350 thereof to go to th» master, and $3,325 to the owners of the T. The remaining $3,325 to be apportioned among her offlcers and, crew, including the mister and those of the cattlemen who took part in the service in propor- ����