THE "READY."

[1951] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 196

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Willmer, sitting with Captain R. Mann and Captain Lewis Parfitt, Nautical Assessors.

Collision - Crossing vessels - Respective duties - Look-out - Seamanship - Collision between steamship Fulham and Trinity House tender Ready off Tongue Sand Tower, Thames Estuary -Fulham inward bound; Ready on voyage tending to various buoys in vicinity-Vessels sighted by each other on crossing courses at distance of about three miles, starboard side of Fulham being open on port bow of Ready - Duty of Fulham to give way-Course and speed maintained by Fulham-No action taken by Ready until about two minutes before collision (at distance of approximately two cables), when she hard-a-starboarded and stopped her engines and subsequently put them full astern - Movement of both vessels hampered by proximity of Tongue Sand Tower-Impact between stem of Ready and starboard side of Fulham- Whether Ready was negligent in not taking immediate astern action- Collision Regulations, Arts. 19, 21 (and Note), 22, 23.