THE "CANADA."

(1939) 63 Ll L Rep 112

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Captain R. L. F. Hubbard and Captain P. N. Layton, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Fog - Collision between Norwegian motor vessel Hoegh Hood and Danish motor vessel Canada in English Channel during dense fog - Hoegh Hood on course of 255 deg. true; Canada on course of 84 deg. true-Contact between stem of Canada and starboard bow of Hoegh Hood-"Lying stopped" signal-Look-out-Speeds- blasts being sounded by Hoegh Hood -Allegation by Canada that the Hoegh Hood was sounding "lying stopped" signals before she was in fact stationary and that she (the Canada) was thereby misled-Evidence that Hoegh Hood, to counteract her falling off to starboard under reversed engines, had put her engines dead slow ahead (giving her a headway of a half to one knot) and her wheel to port in an endeavour to bring her back on her original heading - Whether still entitled to sound "lying stopped" signals-Look-out-Speeds- Collision Regulations, Art. 15.