Legal Opinion
Indian River Recovery Co. v. the China
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided September 30, 1986No. Civ. A. 85-315 CMWPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.
This is a maritime action, in which plaintiff Indian River Recovery Company, Inc. (“IRRC”) and intervenor Ocean Watch, a not-for-profit corporation formed by sport scuba divers, charter-boat operators and fishing boat captains, seek the right, exclusive of each other, to dive upon and to salvage the remains of a nineteenth-century shipwreck.
The wreck, popularly called the China Wreck because of its cargo of English ironstone dishes, is located on the floor of the Delaware Bay between Lewes, Delaware and Cape May, New Jersey, in the federally administered…
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- Yukon Recovery, l.l.c.,plaintiff-appellant v. Certain Abandoned Property, in Rem, Ocean Mar, Inc., Claimant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- MAREX International, Inc. v. the Unidentified, Wrecked & Abandoned VesselDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1997
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