SD REBEL BV AND ANOTHER V ELISE TANKSCHIFFAHRT KG

[2025] EWHC 376 (Admlty), High Court of Justice, Admiralty Court, Admiralty Registrar Davison, 27 February 2025

Admiralty – Salvage – Tug under way coming to assistance of grounded vessel – Master of assisted vessel signing Certificate of Safe Delivery providing for London jurisdiction – Tug and crew seeking salvage – Salvage services – Measure of award – Jurisdiction

The claimants were the owners of the tug VB Rebel and its crew seeking salvage in respect of services provided to the defendant's (ET) motor tanker Stela provided at Rotterdam in November 2023.