Admiralty and maritime law involves cases related to navigation and commerce on oceans, rivers, and lakes. Admiralty and maritime cases can involve injuries to longshoremen and vessel crew members, contracts for cargo shipping, vessel collisions, and cruise ship passenger injuries. If your issues involves ships and shipping, business or commerce transacted at sea, finds and salvage, the duties, rights, and liabilities of ship owners, ship masters, and other maritime workers, it is within the realm of admiralty law.
Gallipolis Ferry is an unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, on the Ohio River located along WV 2. It is the site of the Robert C. Byrd Locks & Dam on the Ohio. Gallipolis Ferry lies south of Gallipolis, Ohio. The community is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.