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constructive total loss
A loss in which the item insured is not totally destroyed but is so severely damaged that it is not financially worth repairing. The Marine Insurance Act 1906 defines a constructive total loss as one ...
derelict
Any vessel or cargo abandoned at sea by those in charge of it, without any hope of recovery. In the UK, derelict now comes under the legal definition of wreck, and any salvage has to be reported to ...
external affairs power
An area of shared power under Constitution s 51(xxix) in which the Commonwealth effectively occupies the field. It covers Australia's relations with other countries; implementation of treaty ...
flotsam
The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed up by the sea (as distinguished from jetsam, goods or material thrown overboard and washed ashore). Flotsam and jetsam is used ...
Grace Darling
(1815–42).One of nine children, Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at Bamburgh (Northd.). From 1826 her father was lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone Light on the Farne ...
jetsam
Unwanted material or goods that have been thrown overboard from a ship and washed ashore, especially material that has been discarded to lighten the vessel. Recorded from the late 16th century, ...
lagan
A term in maritime law for goods which are cast overboard from a sinking ship with a buoy attached so that they may be recovered later. It is a term that was also sometimes used to refer to articles ...
marine literature
‘The history of the world’, wrote Thomas Carlyle, ‘is but the biography of great men’, and the same can be said of the history of ships and the sea. It is through the biographies and literature of ...
salvage
The service rendered by a person who saves or helps to save maritime property. Property saved in a non‐tidal river cannot be subject to a salvage claim.
shipwrecks
Is a word with several connotations but here it means vessels that are of particular interest to those working in marine archaeology. Many shipwrecks within the Exclusive Economic Zone of coastal ...
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