THE "LOCHMONAR" AND THE "EMPIRE NUGGET."

(1946) 80 Ll L Rep 251

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

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

Collision - Convoy - Helm action taken to avoid vessel ahead - Risk of collision with vessels in adjoining column - Look-out - Speeds - Collision between plaintiffs' steamship Sovac and first defendants' motor vessel Lochmonar in Atlantic Ocean - Sovac third vessel in sixth column from port of eastbound convoy - Lochmonar third vessel in seventh column - Second defendants' steamship Empire Nugget second vessel in eighth column - Vessel ahead of Empire Nugget "not under command" - Avoiding port helm action taken by Empire Nugget - Port helm action, and subsequent starboard helm action, taken by Lochmonar to avoid Empire Nugget - Impact between port bow of Lochmonar and starboard quarter of Sovac - Action brought by Sovac against Lochmonar and Empire Nugget - Counterclaim by Lochmonar against Sovac and Empire Nugget - Whether Empire Nugget negligent in maintaining her port wheel and in failing to ease her speed - Look-out on Lochmonar - Duty of Lochmonar to use her twin screws - Look-out on Sovac - Green light switched on just before collision.