District Court, S.D. New York May 15, 1870 (The Chancellor)

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The schooner Bride, an American fishing vessel, owned by the libellant and one Henry B.. Taylor, who was her master, and was on board ‘of her, as such, at the time, was at anchor on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, on the 22d of September, 1866, in the pursuit of her business as a fishing vessel, in a dense fog, when, at about twenty minutes past four o’clock in the