Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "PROMETHEUS."

(1948) 82 Ll.L.Rep. 172

ADMIRALTY DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Willmer, sitting with Commodore R. L. F. Hubbard and Captain G. C. H. Noakes, Elder Brethren of Trinity House.

Salvage - Services rendered by river tug Merry Moller and lighters Prettylight and Silkylight to motor vessel Prometheus off mouth of River Yangtze - Prometheus damaged forward by mine - Down by head - Inability to cross river bar to Shanghai-Lighters towed by tug from Shanghai to ship for purpose of assisting in lightening of ship-Part cargo loaded into lighters- Cargo shifted from forward to aft by other salvors to put ship on even keel- Ship enabled to cross bar - Claim by tug and lighters against ship-Estimate of value of services - Plea by defendants that ship could have been similarly lightened by jettison of cargo, in which case the ship's liability would have been limited to general average contribution-Risk to ship-Evidence of prevailing weather -Damage to lighters-Loss of ropes, etc.

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