Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who salvages or assists in salvaging a ship or its cargo.
- noun A ship used in salvage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who saves a ship or goods from wreck, fire, etc. See
salvage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
salvages ; especially, one who assists in saving a distressedship or its goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who salvages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Still, Mr. Marden did say that when a store goes out of business or has its inventory damaged, a third party-called a "salvor" - takes over and brings the merchandise to stores like Marden's.
The Adventures of Euan and Chris Is Brit Banker's Sitcom-a-Clef 2001
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Still, Mr. Marden did say that when a store goes out of business or has its inventory damaged, a third party-called a "salvor" - takes over and brings the merchandise to stores like Marden's.
The Adventures of Euan and Chris Is Brit Banker's Sitcom-a-Clef 2001
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But salvor Nilda Vazquez claims the Panamanian Ministry of Economy and Finance has granted her exclusive rights to the wreck.
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In 2001, Warren White, a salvor with a reputation for blowing up wrecks to find their hidden gold, announced that a wreck off the coast of Panama -- the oldest ever found in the Western Hemisphere -- was Vizcaina.
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The company operates as the salvor-in-possession of the Titanic wreck.
Five For The Drive Robert Maltbie 2006
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However, since the book's publication, Vazquez has teamed up with an American salvor company and dived on the wreck with unknown results.
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The company that arranged for the cruise -- and provided funding and equipment for the expedition -- later sues RMST, claiming co-salvor status and seeking $8 million for breach of contract, fraud, and other damages.
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RMST's status as exclusive salvor is valid so long as it remains "in possession," a condition that effectively compels it to mount salvage expeditions every year or two.
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But the primary goals of the salvage -- to maintain the project's salvor-in-possession status and recover "desirable objects" for display -- remain decidedly non-archaeological.
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RMST requests a preliminary injunction, and, in an order dated June 23, the court declares that RMST, as salvor-in-possession, has the right to exclude others from visiting the site in order to photograph it.
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