Baker Salvage Co. v. The Taylor Dickson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 district ·

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1. ““This is not a sea-board studded with harbors and prosperous commercial cities and towns, from which salvors may run out short distances along-shore, and render successful services in a few hours. It is a long coast, dangerous and barren, constantly swept by strong winds and currents, where the ordi-. nary tide varies only three feet, and on which wrecking enterprises are attended with constant risks and peculiar difficulties. Wrecking service here can only be successfully performed by organized capital, enterprise, and skill, so organized as to be capable of sustaining a constant provision of experienced mariners, powerful wrecking vessels, and ample wrecking implements and material, ready at all hours for immediate service. The business cannot sustain itself in the hands of reputable men and companies unless the admiralty courts shall give exceptionally liberal rewards in all cases of meritorious service on this sea-board. And surely it is in the interest of commerce to sustain the wrecking business in these waters and latitudes. I earnestly maintain that salvors on this coast should be more liberally dealt with by admiralty courts than on coasts north of us.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker Salvage Co. v. The Kimberley