... such as go down to the sea in ships ...

[fivemack]

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admlty/2008/3034.html

I can't help thinking that identical cases must have come before similarly-constituted Admiralty Courts for at least the past three thousand years, the Trading Company of Sidon complaining to the Towing Corporation of Zephyrion that the bireme procured to tow three dozen cedar-logs to Kition had been provisioned according to an inaccurate estimate of the draft of the lumber.

Though I would have thought that no ordinarily prudent Phoenician ship-owner would name their vessel "A TURTLE".

Comments

[naath.livejournal.com]

LOL. :)

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

It amazes me that clause 18 is a standard term. This would never pass on land: I guess worse things really do happen at sea.

[htfb.livejournal.com]

The Phoenician courts used to try reams of such cases.