The Floridian

Appellants, William McDonald, William Long, and E. M. Daugherty, filed their libel in rem and in personam against the steamship Floridian and Strachan’s Southern Steamship Company to recover compensatory damages and allowances for maintenance on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellants on October 21, 1934, while employed as members of the Floridian’s crew on a voyage from Portland, Oregon, to New York City. The libel alleges: “That on said 21st day of October, 1934, said vessel was unseaworthy, proximately causing libelants’ injuries, in the following particulars: (1) that the owners and/or charterers had lashed on the main deck, between #4 and #5 hatch, a spare propeller weighing several tons, and which lay between certain chains used in steering the vessel, and said propeller being located in said place there was danger in event of the lashing becoming loose or breaking, and the appliances used for holding said propeller down becoming worn or insufficient, and the same were defective and insufficient, crystallized, that the blade would shift and jam the said steering gear, and thereafter when the *290 vessel encountered a storm, the propeller…