Ship Council

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The ship's council is a meeting of ship's officers convened by the captain to give an opinion in a dangerous situation. In German law, the term was laid down in the Commercial Code .

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In the case of an existing danger or other serious decisions to be made, the master of a seagoing ship can convene the ship's council. Depending on the question to be answered, the ship's council can include some or all of the officers of a ship. After discussing the question (s) to be resolved, the ship's council is required to pass a resolution and record it in the ship's diary. The vote taken is an expert opinion on the measures to be taken, but the captain is not bound by it in his decision. In particular in the event of a differing opinion in such a procedure, a captain is required to record this in the diary with the reasons.

literature

  • Hans Segelken : Captain's Law . 2nd Edition. Weltarchiv GmbH, Hamburg 1974.
  • Georg Schaps ; Hans Jürgen Abraham: The Law of the Sea in the Federal Republic of Germany: Commentary and Collection of Materials, Volume 1 . de Gruyter, 1978, ISBN 3-11-007541-5 .
  • Walter Helmers (Hrsg.): Müller-Krauss, manual for the ship's command . Volume 2, Maneuvering, Part B. Springer Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-17973-9 .