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William Mason and others, Libellants v. Ship Blaireau U.S. 240 (1804)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0043 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT U. S. MASON Am) OTVaS WILLIAM MASON AND OTHERS, LIBEL- Sitr BLAX- LANTS. v. SHIP BLAIREAU. REIM! THIS was a libel for salvage, filed in the district One third part of the gross court of the United States for Maryland district, by the value of the master, officers. crew, owner, aud freighters ofthe Bri- ship and cargo tish merchant-ship The Firm, against the French ship alowed for - e Blaireau, salvage-and one third of the sah age The facts stated in the proceedings and evidence, decreed to the were as follow. owners of the zaving ship and cargo. The ship Le Blaireau, Yanies Anquetil, master, on a If one of the voyage from Aartiniqui to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, salvors em n bezzles partof on the 30th of March, 1803, at 10 o'clock at nigt, in the goods sa. Lat. 35. 46..N.-Long. 46. west from Paris, wsuxun ve, heoreits own by a rihopanish 64 gun ship, called the St. ulien, his right to commanded by Francisco Mondragora, which struck the salvaoe. A detention at bow of the Blaireau, carried away her bowsprit, and cut. sea to save a water close to the seam of the stem, started three planks vessel in dis. of the bends, and all above them, and crushed to pieces dess, is such a rbar deviation as the larboard cat-head. Before morning there were three discharges the and a half feet of water in the hold, and the Spanish underwriters, commander not' being able to wait for an attempt to re- St.nd his own pair the Blaireau, he took her crew and passengers on insurer. board his ship, excepting one man, Thomas Toole, anI If a vessel Irishman, who could not be found, as it was alleged by distress is a- the officers and crew of the Blaireau ir their protest, bandoned at sea by the but whos was, as he himself alleged, prevented by force. master and al from getting into the first b6at, and afterwards refused the crew, ex. to go in the second boat, -being determined to remain on cepting one board the Blireau. Took, being thus left alone, cut man, who is left either by away, as he alleged in his libel, the anchors, and the accident or de. bowsprit (which had been left.hanging) to lighten her sign, he is dis- bows, put hey before the wind, and hoisted a signal of hsgeontrt adistress. In this situation she was, the next day, found a mariner of and'boarded by the ship Firm, bound on a v6yage from that veqsc, and Lisbon to Baltimore. The persons on board of the Firm entt'ed to.sal. were. If apprentices Sare salvors, Charles Christie, one of the charterers of the ship. their masters William Mason, master. are not entitled to theirhie William Stephenson, mate, shipped at;C4. sterlin&'per month.

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