Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs were the master, pilot and crew of the tug Kembla II and claimed a salvage reward for services rendered to the Texaco Southampton in 1975. The Texaco Southampton had suffered a switchboard fire which left her without power and..

The plaintiff (Ultramar) sought to recover the value of necessaries supplied to the defendant’s vessel Joan M. McCullough . Ultramar, in six separate actions, sought to recover the value of necessaries supplied to six other ships also owned by..

The plaintiffs claimed that they had insured with the defendant cargo underwriters goods to the value of HK$5 million which had been placed on board the ship Amelia , due to sail from Singapore to Hong Kong; and that on 12 November 1978, whilst the..

Four vessels, the El Salvador, Hope, Managua and Honduras , all under the control of General Somoza, were lost to their owners (Panamanian and Nicaraguan corporations) during the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution which resulted in the overthrow of the..

Award published in May 1981 By a charterparty on an Exxonvoy 1969 form, the respondents chartered the claimants’ vessel for two continuous voyages from Algeria to Italy for the carriage of one grade of crude oil. When the charterers gave..