Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "HEMBURY."

(1949) 83 Ll.L.Rep. 223

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain C. St. G. Glasson and Commodore T. L. Owen, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision-River-Ship emerging from dock -Speed-Look-out-Collision between steamships Baltic Queen and Hembury in Ricer Mersey - Baltic Queen, with head tug, emerging from Brunswick Dock under starboard wheel, her intention being to get on to a down-river heading - Hembury, with head and stern tugs, lying up river off Brunswick Dock entrance, stemming flood tide-Impact between stem of Hembury and port side of Baltic Queen -Baltic Queen sunk-Whether collision due to coming ahead by Hembury or to Baltic Queen being carried by tide on to Hembury's stem-Astern action taken by Hembury - Whether she was negligent in failing to go astern sooner.

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