Ship
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A vessel employed in navigation; for example, the terms the ship's papers, the ship's husband, shipwreck, and the like, are employed whether the vessel referred to be a brig, a schooner, a sloop, or a threemasted vessel. A vessel with three masts, employed in navigation.
4 Wash. C. C. (U. S.) 530; Weskett, Ins. 514.
The. boats and rigging (2 Marsh. Ins. 727), together with the anchors, masts, cables, and such-like objects, are considered as part of the ship (Pardessus, note 599; Dig. 22. 2. 44).