THE "QUEEN MARY."

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 178

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain W. E. Crumplin and Captain G. C. H. Noakes, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Single ship convoy - Escort - Respective rights and duties - Seamanship - Look-out - Collision between H.M.S. Curacoa and steamship Queen Mary in Atlantic Ocean in broad daylight - Curacoa acting as protective escort to Queen Mary - Queen Mary on zigzag course known to Curacoa, and overtaking Curacoa in spite of zigzag - Manoeuvres by Curacoa to keep herself within limits of Queen Mary's zigzag - Starboard leg of zigzag undertaken by Queen Mary when Curacoa was a little forward of her starboard beam and about a mile distant - Converging courses - Porting by Queen Mary when vessels about two cables apart, followed by hard-a-porting when they were about one cable apart - Evidence of ineffective starboard helm action taken by Curacoa - Porting by Curacoa just before collision - Cause of porting unexplained - Interaction - Impact between stem of Queen Mary and port side of Curacoa - Curacoa sunk - Consideration of correlative duties of escort and her faster convoy - Collision Regulations, Art. 21n.