Ward Hunt

“ She was bound to adopt such course as would protect all the vessels, assuming that the other vessels would do their duty also. It was, however, the duty of the other vessels so to make their courses as not to render it embarrassing or difficult for the sloop to do her duty, or to make it doubtful what she should do in the emergency. The schooners were bound to take reasonable precautions on their part. ”

“ She saw it in advance, should have known it, and avoided it, by keeping further to the leeward of the Hawley, or by making her tack at an earlier period. She cannot shift upon another the consequence of an embarrassment produced by her own fault.
The captain of the Eveline did not expect the Allen to luff into the channel. He testifies that he supposed she would go to the Blackwell Island side, and that there was plenty of room for her there. He acted upon this theory, in which we think he was greatly in error, and the collision was the result. ”