The British Ship Loch Carve

Citations

• 3 D. Haw. 372

Syllabus

<p>Admiralty — Salvage compensation: Different classes of salvage ser. vice entitled to compensation, considered.</p> <p>Same — Salvage—Compensation—Efforts of volunteer that accomplish nothing: Where a volunteer attempts salvage of a stranded vessel and fails to accomplish anything and abandons the vessel which is later salved by others, lie earns no compensation. Where such volunteer, on leaving the stranded vessel forwarded a message for assistance at the first opportunity, which message did not arrive at its destination until after a later similar message forwarded by another boat of the same owner, if at all, the owner held to be not entitled to compensation on account of first message.</p>