Cities Service Oil Co. v. Arundel Corp. (337 F.2d 842, 1964)

PER CURIAM.

Cities Service Oil Company appeals from a judgment dismissing its libel against the Arundel Corporation. Libellant’s supertanker, the Cities Service Baltimore, was in the Prall’s Island Reach, en route from a Staten Island anchorage to the Cities Service dock at Linden, New Jersey, when it ran aground while attempting to pass Drill Boat No. 3, a non-selfpropelled dredge owned by respondent. Libellant brought this action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for the resulting damages.

Cities Service Baltimore is an oceangoing tanker, 661 feet long and 91 feet wide; heavily laden on this voyage, she drew 32 feet, 4 inches forward and 32 feet, 3 inches aft. The Prall’s Island Reach channel is 400 feet wide where the accident occurred, with a controlling depth — minimum depth of the channel at mean low water as found in government surveys — of twenty-nine and a half or thirty feet. '