Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit May 13, 1999, No. 95-1783 (Fairport International Exploration, Inc. v. Shipwrecked Vessel)

lead-opinion

*493BOGGS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DOWD, D.J., joined. MOORE, J. (pp. 502-03), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in the result.

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

“Don’t give up the ship,” ordered Captain James Lawrence in 1813 as HMS Shannon engaged his frigate Chesapeake. One hundred twenty years later, Wilfred H.