The Lorena - [1973] 1 NZLR 507

Shipping and navigation — Maritime liens — Material and necessities supplied to ship — Claim for cost of repairs to ship's refrigerating plant carried out in foreign port not claim for "necessaries" — Ship unlawfully arrested.

Admiralty — Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court — Jurisdiction "in rem" and "in personam" — Ship arrested for cost of repairs carried out in foreign port — Claim for repairs not a claim "in rem" — Plaintiff bound by claim in writ upon which ship arrested — Payment into Court under protest to release ship not a payment in satisfaction of claim — Admiralty Courts Rules 1883, RR 48(a), 79, 80.