Case Name: In the Matter of the Complaint of HERCULES CARRIERS, INC., for exoneration from or limitation of liability as Owner of the M/V Summit Venture, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Claimants, Canadian Transport Company, Clipper Maritime Co., Ltd., I.S. Joseph Company, Inc., Ultraocean S.A., Sabine Towing & Transportation Company, Claimants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1983-11-16
Citations: 720 F.2d 1201
Docket Number: No. 81-6005
Parties: In the Matter of the Complaint of HERCULES CARRIERS, INC., for exoneration from or limitation of liability as Owner of the M/V Summit Venture, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Claimants, Canadian Transport Company, Clipper Maritime Co., Ltd., I.S. Joseph Company, Inc., Ultraocean S.A., Sabine Towing & Transportation Company, Claimants-Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 720
Pages: 1201–1205

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Complaint of HERCULES CARRIERS, INC., for exoneration from or limitation of liability as Owner of the M/V Summit Venture, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Claimants, Canadian Transport Company, Clipper Maritime Co., Ltd., I.S. Joseph Company, Inc., Ultraocean S.A., Sabine Towing & Transportation Company, Claimants-Appellants.
No. 81-6005.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Nov. 16, 1983.
Opinion on Granting Rehearing En Banc Dec. 13,1983.
See also, D.C., 566 F.Supp. 962.
Jack C. Rinard, Ted R. Manry, III, Tampa, Fla., for Canadian Transport et al.
Kent Westmoreland, Houston, Tex., for Sabine Towing.
Dewey R. Villareal, Jr., Tampa, Fla., for Hercules Carriers.
James O. Davis, Jr., Tampa, Fla., for Judith T. Curtin.
Richard F. Ralph, Miami, Fla., for Greyhound Lines.
David G. Hanlon, Tampa, Fla., for State of Fla. (Dept. of Transp.).
Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, HENDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
On May 9, 1980, the M/V Summit Venture, owned by Hercules Carriers, Inc., a foreign corporation, struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge which spans the entrance of Tampa Bay. As a result of the collision, damaged and sunken portions of the bridge blocked other vessels' passage to and from the port of Tampa for several days.
Hercules Carriers, as the Summit Venture's owner, filed in district court a Complaint for Exoneration from and Limitation of Liability. The owners of delayed vessels responded with claims for damages for the costs incurred in maintaining those vessels and their crews. These costs included provisions, wharfage charges, additional towing charges, fuel, seamen's wages and loss of the vessels' use.
The district court had already dismissed similar claims made by other parties against another ship, the Capricorn. A few months before the Summit Venture struck the Sky-way, the Capricorn had been involved in another collision, the wreckage of which had also blocked passage to and from the port of Tampa. The district court, for reasons stated in its earlier order of dismissal in the Capricorn's case, dismissed as well the present claims against Hercules.
A panel of this circuit has affirmed the district court's earlier order dismissing claims against the Capricorn. Kingston Shipping Co. v. Roberts, 667 F.2d 34 (11th Cir.1982). That affirming decision controls the present case.
AFFIRMED.