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Owners’ breach of obligation - 23/80

A subsidiary question arose as to whether the presence of loose rust scale on 60 per cent. of the bulkhead areas in the holds was a breach of the owners’ obligation properly to maintain the vessel and to deliver her “with clean swept holds and tight staunch strong and in every way fitted for the intended cargo”.

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