Quogue v. Long Island R. Co‪.‬

The collision occurred about 6:30 a.m. on May 26, 1927, close to the red buoy, referred to in the testimony as the "bug," which is at the entrance to the Greenville Channel. Libelants steam tug Transfer No. 12 was proceeding with two car floats, made fast one on each side, from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to Greenville, N.J. The Quogue, with a car float on her port side, was proceeding down the Greenville Channel bound for Long Island City. When the vessels began to navigate with reference to each other, they were some 2,000 feet apart and in position to pass port to port. The Transfer No. 12 blew a single blast to which the Quogue replied with two. The Transfer thereupon blew the alarm, slowed her engines, and again signaled for a port to port passage. To this second signal the Quogue again blew twice and sounded an alarm. The Transfers engines were then stopped, and again she blew an alarm and a one-blast signal. The Quogue hauled to port to cross the Transfers bow, and, although both vessels reversed their engines before the collision, they did so too late to prevent their tows coming into contact. About three or four minutes elapsed between the Transfers first signal and the collision.