JOHN MURRAY v. ELLERMAN LINES, LTD. (OWNERS OF THE STEAMSHIP "CROXTETH HALL"); JOSEPH COMERFORD v. WHITE STAR LINE (OWNERS OF THE STEAMSHIP "CELTIC").

(1929) 35 Ll L Rep 157

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Lord Merrivale (President).

Seamen - Wreck - Wages - Unemployment - Services terminated by wreck short time before probable completion of voyage under articles-Right of seamen (1) to subsistence allowance; (2) to two months' wages - "Shall . . . be entitled, in respect of each day on which he is in fact unemployed during a period of two months from the date of the termination of the service, to receive wages at the rate to which he was entitled at that date"-Construction- Held that, as the shipowner had not discharged the onus of proving that other suitable employment was available, the seaman was entitled under the Act to two months' wages from the date of the termination of his service by the wreck; but that the statute did not include subsistence money - Merchant Shipping (International Labour Conventions) Act, 1925, Sect. 1 (1), (2).