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place, that the bottom plates were this class, and therefore was not sound, and that the corrosion was unseaworthiness. When was the entitely due to the acid and wholly pipe cracked? Water in such caused during the voyage. The quantity as to indicate a leak was "Yorkshire" was a steamer of one hold, first observed on the 26th, though with engines aft, built in 1893. She the weather up to that time passed her second No. 2 Lloyd's had not been such as to cause a survey in 1915, and was classed 100 leak, though such as to open a crack A. L. She was sold to her present so as to cause a substantial leak: owners In 1916, and upon the sale it was said a crack could not A curious story of a chemical cargo was inspected in dry dock and have been caused on the previous from Liverpool was revealed when her bottom and plating found ballast voyage, or it would have bisen. judgment was delivered by Mr. to be in good order. She made visible before loading. His Lordship Justice Hill in the Admiralty Court, a number of voyages, to "north did not think this at all necessary. in an action brought by the owners French ports, with general cargoes, Thé crack might not have opened at of the cargo on the steamship "Yerk- [ returning to the United Kingdom in all, until the ship encountered heavy shire," sailing out of Liverpool, ballast, and in the summer of 1917 seas. There was heavy weather off against the owners of the vessel, in made a few potato voyages between the Coralsh coast on the ballast which the chemical action was dis Jersey and Southampton. The voyage, voyage, and on the 24th very bad. consed of a carge of Tulphate of cop immediately preceding the voyage in weather in the Mersey sea channels. per on the keelplates of the vessel. question was Liverpool to Rouen, and The Elder Brethren thought, and his Delivering judgment, his Lordship the voyage before that Middies-Lordship, thought, that if the crack said this was a claim against the brough to Fecamp... She was under was caused by very bad weather it owners of the steamship "Yorkshire," charter party to Messrs. Leopold Wal- i was more probable that it was caused under bills of lading of sulphate of fort and Co. Having discharged at off the Corniah coast than in the copper and other goods shipped for Rouen, she made a bad pasange in Merney - sea channels, but be a voyage from Liverpool to St. Mile ballast to Liverpool, where she could - hat, say, that." it. Was in October, 1917, for loss of or dam- | srrived on October 20, 1917... The so much more probable" that” he age to the goods. A great part of owners had been anxious to with should be justified in finding that the shipment was either not delivered draw her from service for over was so caused. The matter at all, or delivered damaged after | haul, but at Mers, Walford's left in doubt, and the onus was on the voyage”. Had been broken request postponed doing so. She the plaintiffs. “He was unable pat Palmosth The defence began to load on the morning of her, that the crack existed befo was perlis of the sea. The plaintiffa | arrival, Saturday, and the loading voyage began.” As to the valve, ad- answer to thats was unseaworthiness a was completed on the 23rd. As mittelty, it was corroded, and not a of the ship, minor defendes pleated loaded she was about three feet by tight fit. But it was to prevent the . were not open to defendants in that the stern. The sulphate of copper return of sea water through the pipe, couft, and would only become mater | was directly below the pipe in ques and he could not find that it ought ial if perils of the sea" failed. The tion, and as loaded the pipe went to be watertight, or that the ship was damage was caused by incursion of below the water line, The 5 Forleshire not seaworthy ifit was not. The valve sea water into the held during the left the Mersey on the evening of the was not an extra precaution against voyage. The case turned on whether: 24th, but meeting with very heavy. * cracked pipe, but to prevent the the ship was unseaworthy, and the weather she put back before the return of sea water up a sound onus of establishing that was upon reached the Bar Lightship. She again pipe. The crack, he found, was the plaintiffs. Unseaworthiness was left the Mersey on the morning of the initial cause of the damage, alleged in two respects oné allega October 25, and the same day during and if there had been nothing tion went to the whole of the damage, the afternoon she was found to be else, and before pything else the other to part, and it might be the ↑ making water and making no way happened, caused much damage." But greater part of the damage:: First, in a-heavy in weather off: Sker- the damage was greatly aggravated)) plaintiffs said that at the beginning ries she put into Holyhead. It was) and ja part, of the plaintiffs' goods. : of the voyage a lead pipe connected there found that there was a crack in probial holy caused by the focus with a water closet on the port side the fead pipe clos to the flange, slow of Whtër, zet difongti dife leak in the officers' quarters in the super through which the water, was? Come ti thrpion/blit through the carrialba? structure amidships and conducted inge. It was boundiround with bag: being in the bottom plating. These through the hold to an opening in Eng and canvas and cemented over leaks, besin about Novemper 2, and. the ship's side was defective, and and all water was pumped out of the the eks of thong holes with the kind also that the storm valve to the open- bilges. She lefe: Holybend-off the produced by inlchate:bë: copper, dholi ing in the ship's aide was defective. 31. She put inttor: Falmouth ; for (solved li wan water, corroding the By reason of these defects they said bunkers and orders November 2, and plates. First, it was held that the acid Sea water entered the hold, and dis while there was found to be making could not hava se usted" in the time solving the sulphate of copper water rapidly, add while at Falmouth unless the plane wers as corrstad or produced an acid, and highly, core she at last made water se rapidly tház, so thin as to make the ship unsea- rosive solution which damaged more the hold was filed, this locursion of worthy for the voyage. What was re- of the salphate, and other cafgo, water at Falmouth, was due jo holes quired of the plates? That they and the "second place they said, which developed in two plates in the "should be fit treitounter the of dia that some of the bottoms, plates of fierboard "atalos on the port ride" day perila bid the woyage. The the ship were before the voyage, the pizzeriatne Bately forward of thác ordinary perils of the-voyage, did s.

thin and corroded, whereby the acid erine-roam bulkhead and the,, plate, not include acil in the kilges. And cut right through) them and caused immediately forward at that. When if the plates were thin, and in that most serious leaks in two plates in the ship came to be repaired those respect the ship unleaworthy, it would the garboard strake; which resulted two plates were renewed, and also a still have to be naked whether that in the hold being flooded and further plate immediately aft of them in the waseaworthiness caused the damage. damage being done, nearly the whole engine room space, which also was Aere the plates too thin or corroded? of the sulphate of copper being dis- badly corroded. There was corrosion That, in his Lordship's view, became solved and other cargo being to a less degree in many other places, the sole question. It was said that seriously --damaged or destroyed. | but not such as to call, for renewal, the ceiling was broken, but of this he -Defendants replied "first that the "The pipe in itself was a good pipe could find...” no.

pipe was sound, and was cracked by of ita «kind,og It might be that, whether the

we perils during the voyage, judged by the highest standard, a

or

and that the valve, though not ab-ship, should not have a lead pipe in a would have

infely watertight, was reasonably cargo space, but this was the wort of bilges. It was said

ft for its purpose, and, in the second arrangement common in ships of

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