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A 5 page consideration of the circumstances surrounding the salvage of a World War II aircraft that crashed into US waters in 1943. This paper considers the distinction between lost, misplaced, and abandoned as they relate to the plane’s ownership. The author emphasizes the importance of salvage law in deciding just compensation for the plane’s recovery. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AM2_PPlwsalvage.rtf
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salvage brings to mind visions of sunken Spanish galleons with gold dubloons hidden deep within the wreckage. Modern maritime salvage, however, is hardly limited to recovering pre-twentieth century wrecks.
Indeed, modern-day salvage activities more often focus on twentieth and twenty-first century vessels than they do older vessels. Likewise, the vessels of focus arent always ships and boats.
An excellent example is the recent raising of a World War II Navy TBD-1 Devastator, an aircraft that crashed eight miles from Floridas coastline in 1943. Raised by
aircraft collector Doug Champlin, this plane has become the center of a controversy that revolves around salvage law and how it applies to government property recovered in US waters.
The controversy has become particularly heated because the plane is of considerable historic value given that it is the only plane of its kind to have survived World War II.
The Navy has contended that it is the rightful owner of the Devastator. Champlin, however, has claimed ownership himself. His claim
is understandable given the effort he had to expend to secure it. The operations cost Champlin an estimated $130,000. He is agreeable to turning the plane over to
the Navy but only if he is at least reimbursed the money that he has been out recovering it. No one can argue that Champlin has salvaged this historic
wreck. The concept of salvage was first defined be the Supreme Court as "the compensation allowed to persons by whose assistance a ship or her cargo has been saved,
in whole or in part, from impending peril on the sea, or in recovering such property from actual loss, as in the cases of shipwreck, derelict, or recapture" (Wilder, 200,
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