Ship

n. A vessel of any kind employed in navigation. In a more restricted and more technical sense, a three-masted vessel navigated with sails. The term "ship" or "shipping," when used in this Code, includes steam-boats, sailing vessels, canal-boats, barges, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place for the transportation of merchandise or persons. Civ. Code Cal. § 960. Nautical men apply the term "ship" to distinguish a vessel having three masts, each consisting of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, with their appropriate rigging. In familiar language, it is usually employed to distinguish any large vessel, however rigged. It is also frequently used as a general designation for all vessels navigated with sails; and this is the sense in which it is employed in law. Tomlins. And see Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock Co., 119 U. S. 625, 7 Sup. Ct. 336, 30 L. Ed. 501; U. S. v. Open Boat, 27 Fed. Cas. 347 ; Raft of Cypress Logs, 20 Fed. Cas. 170; Tucker v. Alexandroff, 183 U. S. 424, 22 Sup. Ct. 195, 46 In Ed. 264; King v. Green-wav. 71 N. Y. 417; U. S. v. Dewey, 188 U. S. 254, 23 Sup. Ct. 415, 47 Ij. Ed. 463 ; Swan v. U S., 19 Ct. Cl. 62.

— General ship. Where a ship is not chartered wholly to one person, but the owner offers her generally to carry the goods of ali comers, or where, if chartered to one person, he offers her to several subfreighters for the conveyance of their goods, she is calied a "general" ship, as opposed to a "chartered" one. Brown. A vessel in which the master or owners engage separately with a number of persons unconnected with each other to convey their respective goods to the place of the ship's destination. Ward v. Green, 6 Co.w. (N. Y) 173, 16 Am. Dec. 437.

— Ship-breaking. In Scotch law. The offense of breaking into a ship. Arkley, 461.

— Ship-broker. An agent for the transaction of business between shipowners and charterers or those who ship cargoes. Little Rock v. Barton, 33 Ark. 444

— Ship-chandlery. This is a term of extensive import, and includes everything necessary to furnish and equip a vessel, so as to render her seaworthy for the intended voyage. Not only stores, stoves, hardware, and crockery have been held to be within the term, but muskets and other arms also, the voyage being round Cape Horn to California, in the course of which voyage arms are sometimes carried fur safety. Weaver v. The S. G. Owens, 1 Wall. Jr. 368, Fed. Cas. No. 17,310.

— Ship-channel. In rivers, harbors, etc., the channel in which the water is deep enough for vessels of large size, usually marked out in harbors by buoys. The Oliver (D. Ct) 22 Fed. 848.

— Ship-damage. In the charter-parties with the English East India Company, these words occur. Their meaning is, damage from negligence, insufficiency, or bad stowage in the ship. Abb. Shipp. 204. -Ship-master. The captain or master of a merchant ship, appointed and put in command by the owner, and having general control of the vessel and cargo, with power to bind the owner by his lawful acts and engagements in the management of the ship.

— Ship-money. In English law. An imposition formerly levied on port-towns and other places for fitting out ships; revived by Charles I, and abolished in the same reign. 17 Car. I. c. 14,

— Ship's bill. The copy of the bili of lading retained by the master is calied the "ship's hill." It is not authoritative as to the terms of the contract of affreightment; the bill delivered to the shipper must control, if the two do not agree. The Thames, 14 Wall. 98, 20 In Ed. 804

— Ship's company. A term embracing all the officers of the ship, as well as the mariners or common seamen, but not a passenger. U. S. v. Libby, 26 Fed. Cas. 928; U. S. v. Winn. 28 Fed. Cas. 735

— Ship's hnsband. In maritime law. A person appointed by the several part-owners of a ship, and usually one of their number, to manage the concerns of the ship for the common benefit. Generally understood to be the general agent of the owners in regard to all the affairs of the ship in the home port. Story, Ag. § 35; 3 Kent, Comm. 151; Webster v. The Andes, 18 Ohio, 187; Muldon v. Whitlock, 1 Cow. (N. Y.) 307, 13 Am. Dec. 533; Gillespie v. Winberg, 4 Daly (N. Y.) 322; Mitchell v. Chambers, 48 Mich. 150. 8 N. W. 57, 38 Am. Rep. 167.

— Ship's papers. The papers which must be carried by a vessel on a voyage, in order to furnish evidence at her national character, the nafure and destination of the cargo, and of compliance with the navigation laws. The ship's papers are of two sorts; Those required by the law of a particular country ; such as the certificate of registry, license, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be on board ali British ships. Those required by the law of nations to be on board neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; these are the pass port, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll or r6le <T equipage, the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health. 1 Marsh. Ins. a 9, § 6.

v. In maritime law. To put on board a ship; to send by ship. To engage to serve on board a vessel as a seaman.