Talk:Miss Jane Bird/@comment-112206-20190109145934/@comment-32346922-20190119160309

That I'm lost on. Searching for 18th-19th century maritime law on abandoning ship only brings up results about the captain abandoning the vessel. I don't know why a passenger would be held to the same responsibility. Does the Crown not like paying for lifeboats? Maybe the passengers signed some paper or contract where they agreed to stay on the boat, and to only leave if it was sinking, not attacked.