TRANDING. In Maritime Law. The running of a ship or other vessel on shore: it is either accidental or voluntray.
Accidental stranding takes place where the ship is driven on shore by the winds and waves.
Voluntary stranding takes place where the ship is run on shore either to preserve her from a worse fate or for some fraudulent pur pose. Marshall, Ins. b. 1, c. 12, s. 1.
2. It is of great consequence to define accurately what shall be deemed a stranding; but this is no easy matter. In one case, a ship having rnn on some wooden piles, four feet under water, erected in Wisbeach river, about nine yards from shore, which were placed there to keep up the banks of the river, and having remained on these piles until they were cut away, was considered by Lord yon tu have been stranded. Marshall, Ins.
b. 7, s. 3. In another case, a ship arrived in ths river Thames, and upon coming up to the Pool, which was full of vessels, one brig ran foul of her bow and another of her stern, in consequenceof which she was driven aground, and continued in that situation an hour, dur ing which period several other vessels ran foul of her : this Lord Kenyon told the jury that, unskilled as he was in nautical affairs, he thought he could safely pronounce to be no stranding. 1 Campb. 131 ; 3 id. 431 ; 4
Maule & S. 503 ; 5 Barnew. & Ald. 225 ; 4 Barnew. & C. 736 ; 7 id. 224. See PEams or THE SEA..
3. It may be said, in general terms, that in order to constitute a stranding the ship must be in the course of prosecuting her voyage when the loss occurs ; there must be a settling down on the obstructing object ; and the vessel must take the ground by reason of extraordinary casualty, and not from one of the ordinary incidents of a voy age. Arnould, Insurance, ,297, 318, 319. And see Phillips, Ins.