THE "DOMINION MONARCH."

(1941) 71 Ll L Rep 110

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Langton, sitting with Captain P. N. Layton and Captain C. St. G. Glasson, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Lights- Seamanship-Collision between steamship Fairwater and motor vessel Dominion Monarch in English Channel - Fairwater on course of 259 deg.; Dominion Monarch on course of 74 deg.-Both vessels sailing without lights - Dominion Monarch seen by Fairwater at distance of about one mile -Fairwater seen by Dominion Monarch at distance of about half a mile-Starboarding by Fairwater - Porting by Dominion Monarch-Lights not immediately switched on by either vessel- Contact between starboard side of Dominion Monarch and port bow of Fairwater at angle leading forward on Dominion Monarch - Vessels' courses determined by Admiralty routeing instructions-Whether Dominion Monarch entitled to assume that Fairwater was proceeding in same direction - Applicability of Collision Regulations in time of war.