Chapter 59. Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina to hear and determine the claim of the owners of the Danish steamship Flynderborg against the United States, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 59.— An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina to hear and determine the claim of the owners of the Danish steamship Flynderborg against the United States, and for other purposes. August 9, 1921.[[S. 997](/us/bill/67/s/997).][[Private, No. 1](/us/pvtl/67/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Dampskibsselskabet “ Flynderborg’Danish steamship.Owners may bring suit for collision damages in Federal court.Dannebrog, of Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, the owners of the Danish steamship Flynderborg, are hereby authorized to bring suit in personam against the United States, within one year after this Act becomes law, to recover damages for any injury to such steamship Flynderborg which may have been caused by the United States steamship Prometheus, of the United States Navy, in a collision which took place between the United States steamship Prometheus and the steamship Flynderborg on December 4, 1919, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, eastern district of South Carolina, and jurisdiction in admiralty is hereby conferred upon the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina to hear, consider, and determine such suit upon the principles of liability and in accordance with the practice obtaining in like suits in admiralty between private parties and to enter a decree or judgment for or against the United States or such Dampskibsselskabet Dannebrog, including costs.
Sec. 2. That the suit herein authorized shall be brought and prosecuted Procedure.Vol. 21, p. 505; Vol. 36, p. 1093.in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” approved March 3, 1887, as amended, in so far as such provisions are applicable thereto, unless otherwise provided herein. The right of appeal and review shall be afforded as now provided by law in like suits in admiralty between private parties.
Approved, August 9, 1921. 1565