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Admiralty law ( also referred to as maritime law ) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses.

Admiralty law also covers many commercial activities, although land based or occurring wholly on land, that are maritime in character.

Admiralty law is distinguished from the Law of the Sea, which is a body of public international law dealing with navigational rights, mineral rights, jurisdiction over coastal waters and international law governing relationships between nations.

Admiralty law was introduced into England by the French Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was acting as regent for her son, King Richard the Lionheart.

Admiralty law became part of the law of the United States as it was gradually introduced through admiralty cases arising after the adoption of the U. S. Constitution in 1789.

Whilst Pakistan now has its own statute, the Admiralty Jurisdiction of High Courts Ordinance, 1980 ( Ordinance XLII of 1980 ), it also follows English case law.

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( Admiralty law was also based on civil law instead of common law, thus was handled by the civilians too.

Category: Admiralty law

The maritime lien has been described as " one of the most striking peculiarities of Admiralty law ".

While it was common for students of law to visit and study at schools in other countries, such was not the case with England because of the English rejection of Roman law ( except for certain jurisdictions such as the Admiralty Court ) and although the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge did teach canon law until the English Reformation, its importance was always superior to civil law in those institutions.

In preparation for the next attempt to break the Greek blockade, the Ottoman Admiralty decided to create a diversion by sending the light cruiser Hamidiye, captained by Rauf Bey, to raid Greek merchant shipping in the Aegean.

After sailing for a while as schipper ( skipper ) of a merchant vessel named de Vlissinge, he was contacted again by the Zeeland Admiralty to become captain of the Haze, a merchant ship turned man-of-war carrying 26 guns in a fleet under admiral Gijsels fighting the Spanish, teaming up with the Portuguese during their rebellion.

At the same time, the red ensign ( which was designated in 1864 as the flag for merchant shipping ) was used by merchantmen of those colonies which obtained an Admiralty warrant.

In preparation for the next attempt to break the Greek blockade, the Ottoman Admiralty decided to create a diversion by sending the light cruiser Hamidiye, captained by Rauf Bey, to raid Greek merchant shipping in the Aegean.

Blue Ensign | Blue Ensign of the United Kingdom-worn by British-registered merchant vessels commanded by active or retired officers of the RNR, when authorised by Admiralty warrant.

During the First World War the British Admiralty designed eight towers codenamed M-N that were to be built and positioned in the Straits of Dover to protect allied merchant shipping from German U-boats.

To counter German pressure, on April 12 the British Ministry of Shipping negotiated an agreement with the Norwegians that temporarily settled insurance problems for the Norwegian fleet, contingent on vessels sailing for Allied harbours, and this was radioed by the British Admiralty to all Norwegian merchant vessels.

Plastic metal, was a type of vehicle armour originally developed for merchant ships by the British Admiralty in 1940.

Retiring from Venetian service he worked from 1661 till 1663 for an Amsterdam merchant house, having a supply contract with the Admiralty of Amsterdam, one of the five Dutch admiralties.

A further revised fourth edition was published in 2010 to include requisitioned ships e. g. Armed merchant cruisers, Merchant aircraft carriers as well as small craft e. g. landing craft, Admiralty built trawlers.

Fargus was intended for his father's business, but at the age of 13 joined the school ship Conway in the Mersey, lent by the Admiralty for training future merchant navy officers.

Despite its implausibility, this caused the British Admiralty to call vessels home from the American war to guard merchant ships sailing in convoys.

Angerstein decides the old rate could be restored if the British Admiralty could be persuaded to provide armed escorts to the merchant vessels.

Lord Drayton, head of the Admiralty, agrees to order half of Nelson's fleet to convoy the merchant ships.

There are large industrial estates at Bridgend and Waterton ( formerly Waterton Admiralty ) which host a number of small scale and multi-national companies, mainly manufacturing.

When Churchill took over from Chatfield, whilst continuing to represent the Admiralty, this introduced additional problems, and did little to improve the pre-existing ones.

It also details the problems of the early radar and ASDIC equipment available and the poor communications between the fleet and Admiralty.

However, these problems were overcome under the technical leadership of the Polish engineer Wacław Struszyński, working at the Admiralty Signal Establishment.

In 1964, the functions of the Admiralty were transferred to a new Admiralty Board, which is a committee of the tri-service Defence Council of the United Kingdom and part of the Ministry of Defence.

The Admiralty Extension ( which is also one of the two buildings which are sometimes referred to as the " Old Admiralty ") dates from the turn of the 20th century.

* Admiralty brass contains 30 % zinc, and 1 % tin which inhibits dezincification in many environments.

The price paid was half the amount of the 6, 250 m² Admiralty II plot, for which the MTR Corporation paid HK $ 1. 82 billion in cash.

British navigator Captain James Cook arrived in 1773 and 1777 ; Cook named the islands the ' Hervey Islands ' to honour a British Lord of the Admiralty ; Half a century later the Baltic German Admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern published the Atlas de l ' Ocean Pacifique, in which he renamed the islands the Cook Islands to honour Cook.

He was approaching two years on half pay ( which would trigger automatic retirement from the navy ) when on January 8, 1912 his career was saved by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

One was his Board of Admiralty seal, which contained a red-and-white striped shield on a blue field.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

Once the observations were completed, Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis.

According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).

This included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and which was subsequently distributed to both countries, having been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

Meanwhile in Britain, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill made a speech describing the German navy as a ' luxury ', which was considered an insult when reported in Germany.

Offshore islands include the small, forested Admiralty Islands, the largest of which is Manus, to the north of the main island of New Guinea.

According to the Admiralty regulations, " no person shall be appointed to any station in which he is to have charge of stores, unless he can read and write, and is sufficiently skilled in arithmetic to keep an account of them correctly ".

On 13 April 1912, less than two weeks after the creation of the Royal Flying Corps ( which initially consisted of both a naval and a military wing ), an Air Committee was established to act as an intermediary between the Admiralty and the War Office in matters relating to aviation.

contract papers for a Wolseley radial aero engine, which would have required re-orientation of their offices with an army of chartered accountants, he decided to deal only with the War Office and the Admiralty, not the Air Ministry.

( Intention to Proceed ) contract papers ( which would have required re-orientation of their offices with an army of chartered accountants ) and decided to deal only with the War Office and the Admiralty, not the Air Ministry.

The process of condemnation of a captured vessel and its cargo and men was given to the High Court of the Admiralty and this was the process which remained in force with minor changes throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

The Fleet Air Arm was formed in 1924 as organisational unit of the Royal Air Force which was then operating the aircraft embarked on RN ships – the Royal Naval Air Service having been merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps in 1918 – and did not come under the direct control of the Admiralty until mid-1939.