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.