What does SB stand for?

In this important case concerning a ship which was damaged when a hidden underwater projection penetrated her hull during loading, the Court of Appeal was asked by the claimant shipowners to consider whether a term should be implied into the agreement between it and the ship's charterers to the effect that there was a duty upon the charterers to nominate a safe berth for the ship at the loading port.

Senior MPs hope Mr Brown and Mr Cameron, who have the right to appoint political peers, will offer them a safe berth in the Lords.

It is nowadays accepted that ministers who leave the Commons are likely to find a safe berth in the Lords, almost regardless of whether they were any use; similarly, long-standing loyalty to the government as a backbencher is routinely rewarded with a peerage.

that a safe berth clause in a charter does not make the charterer the warrantor of the berth's safety.

He added: "The weather deteriorated to such an extent the captain wanted a safe berth.

It is nowadays accepted that ministers who leave the Commons are likely to find a safe berth in the Lords, almost regardless of whether they were any use; similarly, long-standing loyalty to the government as a backbencher is routinely rewarded with a peerage.

The Huskies, in danger of going nowhere, sweep the Northwest and get a nice, safe berth in the Sun Bowl, against a Big Ten team, Purdue, that they ought to beat solidly.

Their duties include towing Britain's Trident nuclear submarines to safe berths at the Faslane base on the Clyde and arming destroyers.