COLLISION OF SHIPS
Owner Claims Damages
<N Z P A.-Reuter — CopsrtflhO NEW YORK, June 23. The owner of the 11,252ton British tanker Alva Cape, involved in last week’s collision in New York harbour, today filed a two-million dollar suit for damages. The Alva Cape, loaded with 143.000 barrels of highly inflammable naptha, and the empty American tanker Texaco Massachusetts (16,516 tons), were both engulfed by flames after the collision in a narrow channel between Staten Island and New Jersey. Thirty-one bodies have so far been recovered.
The owning company claimed that the collision was not caused bv any lack of care on the Alva Cape, but by the ‘ fault, neglect and lack of care on the part of the Texaco Massachusetts, and those in charge of her, and the tug Latin American, and those in charge of her.”
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Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 15
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138COLLISION OF SHIPS Press, Issue 31095, 25 June 1966, Page 15
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