Larsen

Between 3:07 and 3:09 on the morning of September 1, 1930, the Admiral Nultoh overtook, collided with, and sank, the fishing vessel Orient in the Straits of Georgia at a *327 point in Stephens Passage about one mile north of Sisters Island, in British Columbia waters.

The Admiral Nulton was a steel vessel 335 feet 6 inches in length, beam 46 feet, gross tonnage 3,545, net tonnage 2,174, and was propelled by steam turbine and a single right-handed screw propeller. At full speed ahead the Admiral Nulton made 10 knots. The Client, owned by Sedolph H. Rudd, her master, was a wooden fishing vessel twenty years old, length 62% feet, beam 18 feet; gross tonnage 57; net tonnage 48; operated by Diesel engines; average full speed ahead 7% knots.

As result of the collision the Orient was cut in two athwartships. This proceeding was brought by the owner of the Admiral Nulton, the Portland California Steamship Company, for the limitation of her liability resulting from the collision. Claims were filed on behalf of tho relatives and representatives of the deceased seamen and on behalf of the owner of the Orient. The trial court found that the collision resulted solely from the negligence of…