Court Opinion

ID: 9453710
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:21:13.705283+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:46.058617
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
PER CURIAM.
Appellee has moved for a rehearing basing the motion in large part upon an alleged defect in the diagram which was made a part of our opinion. It may well be that our picturization of the VOGTLAND in the diagram was mistaken in showing it wider than it actually is. In an appendix to the motion the appellee undertakes to correct that fault in our drawing. A recheck of the distances satisfies us that we showed the Vogtland wider than it actually is but the appellee’s diagram shows it too narrow.
Our opinion did not purport to assert that it would be impossible for the two vessels to pass in the 300 foot channel. What we purported to say was that as the situation appeared to the STANDARD OILER such a passage would have seemed to be unsafe particularly because of the angle at which the Vogtland was approaching the passage and particularly because of the speed at which it was proceeding. From the position of the Standard Oiler all that would be visible of the Vogtland would be its starboard side. In describing what the Standard Oiler could see the width of the Vogtland would be immaterial.
If we accept as moré accurate the diagram of the appellee, we still think that the maneuvers of the Vogtland approached recklessness. We are much impressed by the fact that something caused the Standard Oiler to sound the alarm. What caused that was an obvious dangerous situation created by the Vogt*121land. The width of the Vogtland is not important as compared with the speed and the angle at which it was proceeding,
The petition for rehearing is denied.