Compensation and Reward for Saving Life at Sea
1979; University of Michigan Law School; Volume: 77; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1288377
ISSN1939-8557
Autores Tópico(s)Law, logistics, and international trade
ResumoA few hours after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, another British passenger vessel, the Carpathia, rescued the 712 survivors and the lifeboats in which they had taken refuge. 1 Under British law, the owners of the Carpathia could have recovered a salvage award, limited to the value of the lifeboats, from the owners of the Titanic, 2 and the British Board of Trade had the statutory discretion to make an additional award for the saving of human life. 3By contrast, if the American law at the time had applied to the case, the salvors could have received no more than the value of the lifeboats, and if no property had been saved, they could not have recovered a penny. 4 A few months after the Titanic disaster,
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