Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "GOOD TEMPLAR."

(1937) 58 Ll.L.Rep. 249

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Bucknill, sitting with Captain H. C. Birnie and Captain G. Curteis, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Collision between sailing barges Gamma and Good Templar in River Medway- Both vessels tacking down river- Gamma's case: that she was closehauled on the starboard tack and that the Good Templar failed in her duty to keep clear-Good Templar's case: that she was following in the wake of the Gamma, both vessels being closehauled on the port tack, when the Gamma suddenly went about on the starboard tack, making collision inevitable -Dispute as to position of Gamma when she went about-Look-out -Respective duties-Collision Regulations, Arts. 17 (b), 21.

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