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wreck-fish
n. The Australian species is Polyprion ceruleum, family Percoidae. Guenther saysthat the European s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
The destruction of a ship by stress of weather, rocks, &c.; also the ruins of the ship after such accidents; also the goods and fragments which drive on shore after a ship is stranded. It is said that the term is derived from the sea-weed called wrack, denoting all that the sea washes on shore as it does this weed. A ship cast on shore is no wreck, in law, when any domestic animal has escaped with life in her. The custody of the cargo or goods belongs to the deputy of the vice-admiral, and they are restored to the proprietors without any fees or salvage, but what the labour of those who saved them may reasonably deserve.
n. The Australian species is Polyprion ceruleum, family Percoidae. Guenther saysthat the European s...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris