Samuel Blatchford

Name: The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court
Author: Samuel Blatchford

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“The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court”, is a work by Samuel Blatchford. It explores elements such as tug, collision and helm.

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ If the collision does not result as a consequence of neglecting to keep a proper lookout, the vessel is not thereby made responsible for the consequences of the collision; and the exemption of the tug necessarily results from the finding as a fact that the absence of the proper lookout in no wise contributed to the collision.
As it is found as a fact that no special circumstance at any time existed which rendered a change of course on the part of the ship necessary or excusable, under article 23 of the statute, she cannot have any benefit from that article. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ In the case of The Manitoba the courses of the two steam-vessels were not such as to make it the duty of the one more than of the other to avoid the other, or to make it the duty of the one rather than of the other to keep her course; and there was, in regard to the courses of both the steam-vessels, such risk of collision that the obligation was upon both to slacken speed, or, if necessary, stop and reverse. But in the present case the duty was wholly on the ship to keep her course, and wholly on the tug to keep out of the way of the ship ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ It is also urged that if the ship was moving in a swinging path, and was in fault in so doing, the tug had been afforded ample opportunity of observing the ship's course, and had many miles of sea room in which to give her a wide berth, instead of which the tug held to her course with her engine at full speed until the vessels were brought near to each other, and that such conduct on her part, with the fact found in finding 25, that she had no such lookout as is required by law, while an unlicensed mate had the sole control of her, and her captain was asleep, showed the grossest recklessness. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ The 3d conclusion of law made by the district court was that the Tacoma Mill Company was entitled to recover from the claimants of the ship $11,043.75 and costs, and was entitled to a decree that the stipulators for the claimant of the ship pay that sum into court within 10 days, with the costs, and that in case they failed so to do the company was entitled to a summary judgment against them and each of them for said amount and costs, and an order for execution. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ On the 11th of June, 1885, about 2 o'clock in the morning, the steam-tug Tacoma was towing the bark Colusa, of about 1,200 tons burden, laden with lumber and bound on a voyage to San Francisco, Cal., from Port Townsend, in the Territory of Washington, to Cape Flattery; the bark being towed by a hawser about 150 fathoms long, and the stern of the tug being about 750 feet ahead of the stem of the bark. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ That said steam-tug at that time, and up to the time of the collision hereinafter mentioned, was tight, staunch, strong, and in every respect well tackled, appareled, and appointed, and had the usual complement of officers and men, and was also, except as hereinafter found, well manned. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ At three and three-quarters minutes before said collision, (being one-half of a mile away,) dead ahead; the ship bearing five-sixths of a point off the port bow of the tug, and showing both of her lights to the tugs and her green light to the bark; the bark bearing one-sixth of a point off the starboard bow of the ship. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ In obeying and construing these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger. ”

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Samuel Blatchford, The Blue Jacket — Opinion of the Court

“ That said collision was caused, and all the damage resulting thereform was occasioned, solely by the negligence, want of skill, and improper conduct of the officers and persons navigating said ship Blue Jacket, and not from any fault, negligence, or improper conduct on the part of any person on board the said steam-tug Tacoma. ”

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