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 THE B. C. TERRY. 923 �meritorious, and it may not be foreign to remark here that a vessel may be quite derelict on navigable streams and tide-waters, as well as on sea-eoasts or on the ocean. �2. As to the salvage service of the Bramell, White, and Forest City, respectively. Some 20 minutes subsequent to the collision, and while the Wheeless and Terry were still in fiames, the Bramell came from the windward and took a position 40 yards ahead of them, and sent a boat to the Wheeless and attached a line to her. This done, she towed her from along-side the Terry, and dovra the river to the flats, a distance of nearly half a mile, keeping herself as well to windward as possible. Not long after leaving her on the flats the Bramell returned to the Terry, and at once began to throw a stream of water on her. There is diversity in the evidence as to the time she returned to the Terry, and as to the then state of the fire. Hud- Bon, master of the White, testifies that "about half an hour from the time she towed ofi the Wheeless she came back and commenced playing a stream of water on her; the fire was pretty well under control when she came." Darby, senior master on the White, says that "she came back in half an hour or an hour after we had been working, and had got the fire smothered ; I considered it out. " Hyer, master of the Terry, says : "The White, I think, played half an hour on the Terry; the fire was almost extinguished when the Bramell came up." His mate says that when the second tug (Bramell) came up "the fire was nearly extinguished." His steward says "the best of the fire was then out," and Kates "thinks the White had been there about 20 minutes when the Bramell came up, and the fire was then pretty well out." When the White saw the Wheeless on fire at the wharf she hitched on to the tug-boat Lightning, owned also by the American Uredging Company, and towed her to the oil company's dock. There, casting her loose, the White steamed to within 15 feet, on the weather side, of the Terry, which was then buming very rap- idly, and played a two inch and three-quarter stream of water from a steam fire-pump hose on her waist. And Hudson testifies that the fire was then so hot that it scorched the paint on the White, and that the fire-pumps used could throw a good body of water 30 feet. Quenohing this fire, she came along-side and hooked on to a chain plate, and continued throwing the stream of water against the fire on her deck, midship-house hatches, — one being nearly burned through, — spars,.and rigging, until the fire was subdued and extin^ ��� �