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I had to look that one up! Apparently in UK liens only to wages and salvage (and bottomry - but I daren't look that one up to find out...

The boat wasn't really detained - the lock keeper simply refused to provide a service for the OP until it had been paid for. For him to...

I am sure they will tell you that it is too dangerous for them to go near the pontoons in anything above F5 :)

And the coaster is probably Panamanian Flagged now too

You are thinking of the quinquireme from Nineveh. The british coaster was less glamorous - "Cheap Tin Trays" IIRC