1, Salvage — Conduct oe Salvors — Proximate Cause of Danger — Evidence.

As the claimant was crossing tlie bar at the entrance of a harbor she received a signal of one whistle from libelants’ tug, responded with a single whistle, immediately ported her helm, and, after proceeding two or three minutes on her course, struck a shoal in rough water, by reason of which her rudder post was broken, and she signaled for assistance. After getting off the bar, the claimant, being in a helpless condition, was washed on the bar a second time, before the tug went to her assistance, and the latter even then did not come nearer than 400 feet, because of the shallowness of the water. Thereupon the claimant launched her own boat, and carried a line to the tug, whereby the latter was able to give her hawser to the claimant, and to tow her to a place of safety and for repairs; the service lasting about two hours. Held, that the channel being wide enough for two vessels to pass, and the claimant, in any event, having the right of way, because of her having commenced to cross the bar first, her deviation from her course was an error of navigation, which, rather than the signal of tlie tug, was the proximate cause of her stranding, and that therefore the service rendered by 11m tug was a salvage service, for which the libel-ants were entitled to compensation.

2. Same — Amount of Recovery.

A steamer of the value of $40,000, being without rudder, and aground in shoal water in a rough sea, was towed by libelants’ tug to a place of safety; but neither the tug nor any of her crew was exposed to the slightest danger in performing such service, and the ordinary charge for the tow-age of the vessel would have been $175. Meld, that the libelants were entitled to recover $1,000 as salvage, three-fourths of which sum should go to the tug, and the balance to her master and crew, in proportion to their wages.1