Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "VICTORIA PEAK."

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 527

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Pilcher, sitting with Captain A. H. Ryley, Elder Brother of Trinity House.

Salvage - Services rendered by tugs Arcadia and Hibernia to steamship Victoria Peak aground stern first in Gravesend Reach - Inability to use engines - Towed off and taken downstream - Salvage admitted - Short and simple service occupying one hour - Dispute as to danger - Evidence that plating was generally thin - Risk of damage - Salved values: £67,000 - Award: £500 - Tender of £500 - Defendants awarded costs after date of tender.

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