THE "BERWICKSHIRE."

(1946) 80 Ll L Rep 644

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain A. S. Mackay and Captain T. L. Owen, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision - Look-out - Lights - Inevitable accident - Collision between plaintiffs' sailing vessel Anne de Bretagne and defendants' steamship Berwickshire in Atlantic Ocean - Anne de Bretagne, exhibiting her regulation side lights, on an easterly course; Berwickshire, without lights, on a southerly course - Vessels sighted by each other at distance of about 100 yards - Points of impact in dispute - Anne de Bretagne so severely damaged that she had to be sunk - Plea by Berwickshire that collision was due to inevitable accident - Failure by Berwickshire to see lights of Anne de Bretagne sooner alleged to be due to intervening heavy swell.