The Nicarao (15 F.2d 73, 1926)

BUBNS, District Judge.

Libelants a salvage award service rendered the Nicarao, a Honduranian steamship of 1,445 tons, being 235 feet long, 34 feet broadband 20 feet deep, the stipulated sound value of which is $245,000, the damage By sinking and beaching is $7,300, and the salved value is $237,700. The facts are as follows:

The Nicarao bad been put off the Jahneke dry dock on the east bank side of the Mississippi river at New Orleans at about 5 o’clock p. m. on October 17, 1923, having no steam up and no crew, except the fourth en? gineer, a boatswain, and possibly one or twp others of the crew. At about 8:30 p. m., this engineer asked the dock master to come out and give a hand, as the ship was sinking. Jahneke’s, night superintendent and some machinists went aboard and concluded that the main circulator discharge, the outside opening of which was 7 inches, tapering to about 6 inches, was open. The vessel bad already begun to list.

Being unable to stop or cheek the lpak, a telephone call was sent, at about 9:50 p. m., to W. G. Coyle & Co., owners §md operators of towboats, for a boat to pump ship with-. This, company makes a special business .of keeping steam up on their tugs at night for just such emergencies. Their tug Sipsey was sent, and arrived alongside the Nicarao at 10:15 p. m., She put a steam syphon int