Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

On 30 January 1988 the vessel Mare was attacked by an Iranian gunboat, set on fire and abandoned. Smit Tak Offshore Services (“S.T.O.S.”) was a joint venture based in Sharjah in which Smit Tak B.V. (“Smit T.A.K.”) owned a..

26 September 1991 The vessel Indian Grace loaded a cargo of munitions in Sweden for carriage to India. During the course of the voyage a fire was discovered in one of the holds and the vessel diverted to Cherbourg. The cargo, which consisted mainly..

On 9 September 1980 the vessel Derbyshire was lost with all hands. Between October 1987 and March 1988 a formal investigation was held by the Wreck Commissioner, Mr. G. Darling Q.C., into the causes of the loss. The hearing lasted 46 days. Various..

Bills of lading stated that a total of 180,000 bags of sugar had been loaded onto the vessel. When the cargo was discharged, the receivers, relying on tallies which they had arranged to have carried out, claimed that only 177,923 bags had been..