A very important decision was given by Mr. Justice Barnes in the Admiralty Division of the High Court at home on the 9ch of November last. The notion arose out of a collision on the 26th of April last between the China Mutual steamer Moyune and the steamship Knaresbro in the Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, The Moyune was coming out of the Canal into the north end of the Lake and saw the Knaresbro coming towards her on her port Low. The Moyune ported, to pass port side to portside, but the Knareshro suddenly starboarded and struck the port bow of the Moyune with such violence that she begun to fill nnd had to be beached. The Comt prowuneed the Knaresbro solely to blame. The following report of the judgment: is from the Shipping Gazeite snd Lloyd's List" of the 10th of r. Justice Barnes, in giving judgment, said: Tu this case " collision took place a lit: tle after half-past 5on the morning of April 2nd Inst between the steamship Moyune, belonging to the plaintiffs, and the defendants' vessel, the steamship Knaresbro, in Great Bitter Lake, which forms part he waters through which vessels navi-in passing through the Suez Canal, The Moyune is " large vessel of 4,646 tons gross register, and 410 feet long, and she wax hoond on a voyage from Birkenhead cars that she was bound south to China and Japsn ports with a general
through the canal. The Knaresbro is also a large vessel of 3,101 tons gross register, and she wax bound frm Moulmein to Port Said for orders, laden with a cargo of rice. Therefore she was proceeding northwards through the Suez Canal, Now these two vessels met in collision in the Great Bitter Lake just outside the channel which leads from the north into that luke. There is not a great deal of dispute about the spot the coll 'The master of the plain-its' ship gives data from which it seems to be a reasonable inference that it was just outside, if anything, the line which joins the last red gas buoy and the one before it, and to the south-west of the last red (Auoy; in other words, a little more to the westward than the line of the channel. The defendants' captain has marked a spot which is very much in the same position, only, perhaps, a little more to the westward still, Bhe two vessels having come into contact
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