The Roanoke

This was a libel for salvage against the steamer Roanoke by the officers and'crew of the Santa Clara, excepting the master and chief engineer. In the court below the libel-ants had a decree for one-half month’s pay to each, aggregating $887.50, and claimant, North Pacific Steamship Company, appeals.

The salient facts may be briefly stated: On April 10, .1913, while bound from San Pedro to San Francisco, and when in the neighborhood of Point Arguello, the “Roanoke” was disabled by the loss of her propeller. She was a steamer of 1,654 net and 2,354 gross tons, worth about $150,000, and was carrying 93 passengers and a cargo. The-injuiy was such as to leave her without motive power, and, the watei being too deep to afford a safe anchorage, her captain permitted her to drift in shore from 10:05 a. m., the time the accident occurred, *64 until 11:10 a. m., when anchor, was dropped in about 14 fathoms of water. She was then at a point about 1% miles south of east from Point Arguello, and from one-half to three-quarters of a mile from the shore at the nearest point. She remained there at anchor until about 5 o’clock p. m., when the Santa Clara came to her assistance. The Santa Clara,…