The Munrio

These are two libels, brought to recover, for damage which resulted from the collision of two vessels near Cape Mendocino on October 14, 1923.

The steamship Munrio, the more severely injured of the two, was on her way southward from Coos Bay, holding a course 2 degrees eastward of due south. At 7:34 a. m. she was proceeding in dense fog. At that time she stopped to take a sounding, and after doing so went ahead slowly until 7:46, when the fog signal of an approaching vessel was heard, apparently dead ahead and some distance off. According to the testimony of several witnesses, her engines immediately were stopped.

About three minutes later the whistle of a third vessel became audible, apparently several points off the port bow. The Munrio thereupon went ahead again at a slow rate of speed, at the same time changing her course about two points to starboard. At 8:01, in response to dangerously nearing fog whistles, she was swung four points further in that direction. A minute later the Tejan loomed -up, 300 feet away, two points forward of the port beam, and heading for the bridge. The Munrio’s engines were put full *902 speed' ahead and her wheel hard aport; hut before the effect…