A custom of the sea is a custom said to be practiced by the officers and crew of ships and boats in the open sea, as distinguished from maritime law, ... Owen Coffin · Drawing lots (decision making) · Barratry (admiralty law) · Cabin boy

This event changed the “custom of the sea” from a tragic but accepted necessity to a legal crime. As a consequence, fewer mariners admitted to cannibalism, ...

Оценка 4,2 (194) · 28,73 $ The "custom" of the sea is cannibalism. The story revolves around 4 sailors who had to make this most horrible choice and the repercussions of a highly flawed ...

Оценка 3,9 (424) In this riveting account of the ordeal of the crew and the sensational trial that followed, Hanson recreates the shocking events that held a nation spellbound.

Acustom of the seais a custom that is said to be practiced by the officers and crew of ships and boats in the open sea, as distinguished from maritime law, ...

Оценка 4,2 (194) · 90,67 $ This is the true story of the voyage and the subsequent court case which outlawed for ever a practice followed since men first put to the ocean in boats: the ...

This is the true story of the case that outlawed for ever a practcie followed since man first put to sea in boats: the Custom of the Sea, that of drawing straws ...

3 сент. 2019 г. · The remaining sailors would all draw straws and whoever drew the shortest would then be killed and eaten to ensure the survival of the others.

24,95 $ An exciting, historically accurate depiction of a disastrous 19th-century sea journey and its equally horrific legal aftermath, Hanson's book recounts ...

12 авг. 2022 г. · The story of a shocking and harrowing incident of cannibalism in 1835 aboard Limerick ship, the Francis Spaight, on a return journey from ...