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This chapter may be cited as the “Suits in Admiralty Act”.
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**(a)** Officers and members of crews (hereinafter referred to as “seamen”) employed on United States or foreign flag vessels as employees of the United States through the War Shipping Administration 11 See Transfer of Functions note below. shall, with respect to (1) laws administered by the Public Health Service and the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], as amended by subsection (b)(2) and (3) of this section; (2) death, injuries, illness, maintenance and cure, loss of effects, detention, or repatriation, or claims arising therefrom not covered by the foregoing clause (1); and (3) collection of wages and bonuses and making of allotments, have all of the rights, benefits, exemptions, privileges, and liabilities, under law applicable to citizens of the United States employed as seamen on privately owned and operated American vessels. Such seamen, because of the temporary wartime character of their employment by the War Shipping Administration, shall not be considered as officers or employees of the United States for the purposes of the United States Employees Compensation Act, as amended [[5 U.S.C. 8101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; the Civil Service Retirement Act, as amended [[5 U.S.C. 8331](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8331&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; the Act of Congress approved March 7, 1942 (Pub. Law 490, Seventy-seventh Congress) or the Act entitled “An Act to provide benefits for the injury, disability, death, or detention of employees of contractors with the United States and certain other persons or reimbursement there
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Page 267 TITLE 46—SHIPPING § 30903 § 30706. Defenses (a) DUE DILIGENCE.—If a carrier has exercised due diligence to make the vessel in all respects seaworthy and to properly man, equip, and sup- ply the vessel, the carrier and the vessel are not liable for loss or damage arising from an error in the navigation or management of the vessel. (b) OTHER DEFENSES.—A carrier and the vessel are not liable for loss or damage arising from— (1) dangers of the sea or other navigable wa- ters; (2) acts of God; (3) public enemies; (4) seizure under legal process; (5) inherent defect, quality, or vice of the goods; (6) insufficiency of package; (7) act or omission of the shipper or owner of the goods or their agent; or (8) saving or attempting to save life or prop- erty at sea, including a deviation in rendering such a service. (Pub. L. 109–304, § 6(c), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1517.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 30706 .......... 46 App.:192. Feb. 13, 1893, ch. 105, § 3, 27 Stat. 445. This section is restated as two subsections to clarify that the exercise of due diligence in making the vessel seaworthy is a condition only to the defense of error in navigation or management restated in subsection (a). See May v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt Aktien- gesellschaft (The Isis), 290 U.S. 333, 353 (1933). The words ‘‘transporting merchandise or property to or from any port in the United States of America’’ are omitted be- cause of section 30702(a) of the revised title. § 30707. Criminal penalty (a) IN GENERAL.—A carrier that violates this chapter shall be fined under title 18. (b) LIEN.—The amount of the fine and costs for the violation constitute a lien on the vessel en- gaged in the carri
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