Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "TIOGA."

(1944) 78 Ll.L.Rep. 136

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain A. H. Ryley and Captain C. St. G. Glasson, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-Single ship meeting convoy-Swept channel-Collision between steamships Pundit and Tioga in North Sea-Pundit in port column of south-bound convoy; Tioga bound north-Convoy required to make substantial alteration of course to starboard at buoy-Duty of Pundit to keep to her own side of swept channel- Finding that Pundit, in the course of making her turn, was navigating more than a cable on the wrong side of the mid-channel line-Masthead and green lights of Pundit sighted by Tioga very fine on port bow-Decision by Tioga to edge off to starboard-Impact between stem of Pundit and port side of Tioga-Tioga sunk.

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