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Friday, September 9, 2022

The Steamship Reynolds

Many of us teach Vincent v. Lake Erie Transp. Co. around this time of year, the private necessity case of the steamship Reynolds tied to a dock during a terrible storm in Duluth.  A website named "Great Lakes Vessel History" has additional information about the ship.  Apparently the Reynolds was sunk by a German submarine in WW I:

Transferred 1915 to off-Lakes service during World War I.  Cut in two, towed to tidewater and rejoined Torpedoed and sunk May 19, 1918 by German submarine UB-74 off Ile d’Yeu, Bay of Biscay, Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France.

Thanks to Don Gifford for the tip.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2022/09/the-steamship-reynolds.html

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