unseaworthiness

Officer MacLeod had just started telling me about its unseaworthiness.

Justified complaints of unseaworthiness, however, were acted on.

This allows seamen to bring actions against ship owners based on claims of unseaworthiness or negligence.

The cause of the capsize is attributed to the ship's unseaworthiness as well as the severe weather conditions encountered by the ship during the storm.

By the 12th, the Central America was shipping water through several leaks due to the ship's lack of water-tight bulkheads and general unseaworthiness.

Consider, for example, the risk categories of improper stowage, error in the navigation and management of the vessel, and unseaworthiness.

Despite the official change of name, apparently done to forestall rumors of unseaworthiness, the Washington continued to be known to her patrons as the Flyer.

Her continued use was too expensive, and her unseaworthiness resulted in her being paid off, and disposed of in 1920.

In its 25 April 1972 ruling the court denied the exoneration of the owners and found them liable in regard to the unseaworthiness of the ship.

The court codified the maintenance and cure and unseaworthiness remedies, but their ruling on remedies involving negligence did not go over well with Congress.

Seamen injured aboard ship have three possible sources of compensation: the principle of maintenance and cure, the doctrine of unseaworthiness, and the Jones Act.

Not every worker injured onboard a vessel is a "seaman" entitled to the protections offered by the Jones Act, doctrine of unseaworthiness, and principle of maintenance and cure.

The doctrine of unseaworthiness makes a shipowner liable if a seaman is injured because the ship, or any appliance of the ship, is "unseaworthy," meaning defective in some way.

Some of the English ships had been sent home mainly because of disease and/or unseaworthiness; others had separated & they too went back home; there were now only five ships in total with Leveson.

The supergalley was not of any use in genuine naval warfare; her size and unseaworthiness made her useful only for boarding or for firing missiles, though even the vastest galleys were equipped with rams.

A plausible explanation for a ship that never returned is that for as long as men put to sea to the present day, ships were lost at sea without a trace due to weather, unseaworthiness, or other causes-even piracy.

It was originally intended to permit "recovery of damages against a shipowner by a spouse, child or dependent family member of a seaman killed in international waters" in wrongful death cases "caused by negligence or unseaworthiness".

There is indeed no rule of English law which prevents a shipowner from exempting himself by the terms of the bill of lading from liability for damage and loss of every kind, whether arising from unseaworthiness or any other cause whatsoever.

These boats were starting to gain a reputation, still very much unproven, for speed, along with a darker reputation for unseaworthiness; they were known to be very stable under normal conditions, but extremely difficult to right if knocked over, for example by a rogue wave.

"The wrongful death claimants therefore sustained their burden of proving unseaworthiness and there remained only the issue of whether or not one or more of the conditions of unseaworthiness or some other agency caused the disaster.

She convoyed and escorted transports and supply ships, operating out of Brest, France, as a unit of the Patrol Force, until operational difficulties - unseaworthiness - resulted in the restriction of the "Menhaden Fisherman" trawlers to minesweeping and coastal duties.

In the original action before the Chief Justice, which was upheld on appeal to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia en banc, the allegation of unseaworthiness was rejected, but it was accepted that the loss was due to the captain's negligence in navigation.

In the Hong Kong case, the issue was not whether the unseaworthiness was "serious" or "minor"; rather the question was whether the undoubtedly serious unseaworthiness had had an effect sufficiently grave to allow the charterer to repudiate.

The plaintiffs based their claims on information from UNOCAL,Great Eastern, MOECO, party and nonparty witnesses, including the eye witness accounts of the four Thai survivors about the Seacrest's unseaworthiness and what happened on November 3, and other data.

The status of a seaman in admiralty law provides maritime workers with protections such as payment of wages, working conditions, and remedies for workplace injuries under the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act), and the doctrines of "unseaworthiness," and "maintenance and cure."