The Owners etc of the Tugs Maridive VII, Maridive XIII, Maridive 85 and Maridive 94 v The Owners etc of the Oil Rig Key Singapore - QBD (Com Ct) (David Steel J) - 6 October 2004

Salvage - Remuneration - Tug and tow - Tow imperilled by severe weather conditions - Tugs providing services to tow - Whether services constituted salvage - Tugs and tow jointly at fault in failing to heave to in due time - Apportionment of liability as between tugs and tow - International Salvage Convention, 1989

Arrangements were made for the claimants' tugs to tow the respondents' jack up rig Key Singapore a distance of 38 miles from the West Akhen Field in the Eastern Mediterranean to the Port Fouad SW 2 Field, north of Port Said. During the course of the tow the weather conditions deteriorated and the claimants' tugs provided services to the jack which they claimed were salvage services.