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89 Tul. L. Rev. 1103 (2014-2015)

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                    What Is a Vessel?:
    Implications for Marine Finance, Marine
       Insurance, and Admiralty Jurisdiction

                         Stewart E Peck
                       David B. Sharpe*

I.   INTRODUCTION  ........................................................................... 1104
     A.   Lozman's Four-Part Test for Vessel Status; Actual
          U se .................................................................................... 1104
     B.   Implications of Vessel Status ........................................... 1105
     C    Difficul6es with Vessel Status ......................................... 1106
II.  MARINE AND ENERGY LENDING IN BORDERLINE CASES ..... 1108
     A .  Introduction ...................................................................... 1108
     B.   The Ship MortgageActandLozman .............................. 1108
     C    What Happens Ifa Mortgaged Vessel Loses Vessel
          S tatus?  ............................................................................... 1112
     D    Do 46 US.C § 12136andRelatedRegulations
          Prevent the Loss of Vessel Status? ................................... 1114
III. V ESSELS-TO-B E ......................................................................... 1121
IV   APPURTENANCES ........................................................................ 1123
V    CRAFT WITHDRAWN FROM NAVIGATION, DEAD SHIPS, AND
     PERMANENTLY MOORED CRAFT ............................................... 1126
     A.   Withdrawn Vessels Genemlly .......................................... 1126
     B.   Work Platform s ................................................................ 1126
     C    Q uarter B arges ................................................................. 1127
     D    Floating Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms ....................... 1128
VI. DRY DOCKS AS A CASE STUDY OF LOZMAA s EFFECTS ON
     ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION, MARINE FINANCE, AND
     M ARINE INSURANCE  .................................................................. 1129


     © 2015 Stewart F Peck and David B. Sharpe.
     *  Stewart Peck is a senior partner and founding member of the firm Lugenbuhl,
Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard. His law partner, David Sharpe, is also an Adjunct
Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School. The authors wish to thank their law
partner Nathan Homer and their associate Lance Cardwell for their considerable assistance
with this Article. Any views expressed in this Article are solely those of the authors and
should not be attributed to their fi-m or the firm's clients.
                              1103

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