THE "NGAROMA."

(1940) 67 Ll.L.Rep. 180

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Langton, sitting with Captain P. N. Layton and Captain W. E. Crumplin, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-River-Vessel emerging from creek into river-Collision in Greenwich Reach, River Thames, between plaintiffs' steamship Cavallo, bound down, and defendant's motor vessel Ngaroma, emerging from Deptford Creek-Starboard helm action taken by Ngaroma to get on down-river course- Failure to answer helm owing to effect of wind and tide and to fact that she was in light trim - Contact between stem of Cavallo and port quarter of Ngaroma-Respective duties of vessels -Port of London River By-laws, 1938, Rule 40.