AMERICAN AND BRITISH CLAIMS ARBITRATION. 



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The Frederick Gerring, Jr. 



Memorial of the United States in Support of the Claim, 



The Frederick Gerring, Jr., was an American fishing vessel 

 duly registered in accordance with the laws of the United States at 

 the port of Gloucester, in the State of Massachusetts, and owned 

 and officered by American citizens.^ Being licensed and equipped 

 for a fishing voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean, she set sail from 

 Gloucester on May 13, 1896.* 



At about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th of May, 

 1896, the Gerring arrived in the neighborhood of White Island, off 

 the coast of Nova Scotia, where Daniel Doren, her master, observed 

 a number of other American fishing vessels fishing for mackerel 

 at a distance of more than three marine miles from the coast of 

 Nova Scotia, and also a sailing cruiser of the Dominion of Canada, 

 the Vigilant, commanded by Captain Hector MacKenzie, patrolling 

 those waters. While upon the high seas and near the Vigilant the 

 master of the Frederick Gerring, Jr., saw a school of mackerel about 

 one hundred and fifty yards to the southward of the cruiser, and 

 heard the commander of the Vigilant assure the master of one of 

 the other American fishing vessels, the Margaret Haskiyis, that the 

 Vigilant was jogging on the line, that the school of mackerel was 

 "all right," and "to go ahead," meaning that the fish were beyond 

 Canadian jurisdictional waters.^ To satisfy himself further upon 

 this point Captain Doren hailed the boat of the Haskins, which 

 already had its seine out, and inquired of the master how far 

 outside of the three-mile limit of Canadian territorial waters he 

 then was. In response to this inquiry, the master replied that the 

 commander of the Vigilant had just informed him that tlic Vigilant 



'Appendix, pp. 11-12. 

 ^Appendix, pp. 13-14. 

 ^Appendix, pp. 14, 20, 21. 



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