• The Receiver of Wreck is an official who administers law dealing with maritime wrecks and salvage in some countries having a British administrative heritage...
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    considered to be a significant hazard".: 1997 survey  The UK government's Receiver of Wreck commissioned a risk assessment in 1999, but this has not been published...
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    Shipwreck (redirect from Ship wreck)
    any such finds and recovery must be reported within 28 days to the Receiver of Wreck. Failure to do so is an offence under the Merchant Shipping Act and...
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    Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1995)
    mid-nineteenth century. It appoints several officers of Admiralty Jurisdiction such as the Receiver of Wreck. The act of 1995 updates the prior Merchant Shipping...
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  • Metropolitan Police Receiver, formerly the chief financial officer of the London Metropolitan Police Receiver of Wreck, an official of the Maritime and Coastguard...
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  • new wreck. Rambling Wreck, a car that leads the Georgia Tech football team onto the field prior to every game in Bobby Dodd Stadium Receiver of Wreck, an...
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    Garbage Patch – Gyre of debris in the North Pacific Marine debris – Human-created solid waste in the sea or ocean Receiver of Wreck – Official who administers...
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  • MSC Napoli (category Ships of CMA CGM)
    despite warnings from the police that those failing to notify the Receiver of Wreck of goods salvaged risked fines. Scavenged goods include 17 BMW R1200RT...
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  • are supposed by law to be reported to the "Receiver of Wreck" and finders will then be given a reward. Wrecking has been practised a long way back in Denmark...
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  • Royal fish (category Law of the United Kingdom)
    baleen, from the mouths of certain whales). Under current law, the Receiver of Wreck is the official appointed to take possession of royal fish when they...
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    confidential between the Receiver of Wreck, the finders and the Archaeological Diving Unit (working for the Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck). The site was...
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    Wreck diving is recreational diving where the wreckage of ships, aircraft and other artificial structures are explored. The term is used mainly by recreational...
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  • SS Tilawa (category Ships of the British India Steam Navigation Company)
    6 mi) and secretly recovered 2,364 (98.9%) of the silver bars. The company declared it to the Receiver of Wreck in the United Kingdom, but South Africa,...
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    Merchant Shipping Act 1854 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1854)
    after looting of the cargo of the container ship, the MSC Napoli, acting Receiver of Wreck Mark Rodaway said he would invoke powers of this act for the...
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    MV Alta (category Cargo ships of Panama)
    responsibility of the wreck fell to Irish Minister for the Marine as per the Salvage and Wreck Act 1993, until such time as a receiver of wreck be appointed...
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    of Ireland. The whale struggled in the shallow waters for two days until it was killed by Wickham with an improvised harpoon. The Receiver of Wreck[citation...
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    the property of their original owners. Anyone removing those goods must inform the Receiver of Wreck to avoid the accusation of theft. Wreck diving has...
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    MV Cita (category Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly)
    recovered flotsam to the Receiver of Wreck. There is no known case of police taking up criminal proceedings for the removal of the flotsam. According to...
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  • Henry Cadogan Rothery (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    August 1888) was an English lawyer and commissioner of wrecks (now known as the Receiver of Wreck), especially remembered for chairing the inquiry into...
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    Maritime and Coastguard Agency (2007). "Wrecks designated as Maritime Scheduled Ancient Monuments". MCA Receiver of Wreck. mcga.gov.uk. Archived from the original...
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  • negotiations with the Receiver of Wreck, a division of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The Mary Rose, along with a few other historic wrecks, was a vital example...
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    Doom Bar (category Landforms of Cornwall)
    Many ships were wrecked on the Doom Bar, despite the installation of mooring rings and capstans on the cliffs and quarrying away part of Stepper Point to...
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    Charles Boycott (category 39th Regiment of Foot officers)
    local receiver had a right to a percentage of the sale and to keep whatever did not sell. In 1860 Carr wrote a letter to the Official Receiver of Wrecks stating...
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    should be reported to a Receiver of Wreck, and if identifiable, they should be returned to their rightful owner. A large number of groups and individuals...
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    Institution (RNLI) Trinity House Isle of Man Coastguard Irish Coast Guard National Coastwatch Institution Receiver of Wreck Ports Police "Prince Charles opens...
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    HMS Defence (1763) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    " The Danish authorities quickly ordered Lieutenant Wigelsen, the Receiver of Wreck, to the area. Captain David Atkins is first noted as a midshipman...
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  • German submarine U-859 (category World War II submarines of Germany)
    claimed ownership of the mercury. The Receiver of Wreck took possession of the mercury, and the High Court of Singapore ruled that "the German state has never...
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    English ship Gloucester (1654) (category Speaker-class ships of the line)
    signs of any human remains. The discovery of the ship's bell in 2012 enabled the identity of the wreck to be confirmed by the Receiver of Wreck and the...
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    Saba Rock (category Islands of the British Virgin Islands)
    many years served as Her Majesty's Receiver of Wreck in the Territory. It was subsequently sold to the McManus family of Hawaii and now has a small hotel...
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  • imminent tacking. See also going about. Receiver of Wreck A government official whose duty is to give owners of shipwrecks the opportunity to retrieve...
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