If a mate or seaman dies during the voyage, his personal representatives are entitled to his wages to the time of his death, if he would have been entitled to them had he lived to the end of the voyage.
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code § 874
Mates and Seamen
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
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