Maritime liens of a ship shall arise out of
 
(a) wages and other sums due to the master, officers and other members of the ship's complement, in respect of their employment on the ship ;
 
(b) port, canal and other waterway dues and pilotage dues;

(c) claims against the owner (which term shall for the purposes of this section also include the charterer, manager or operator of the ship) in respect of loss of life or personal injury occurring, whether on land or water, in direct connexion with the operation of the ship ;

(d) claims against the owner, based on a wrongful act and not capable of being based on contract, in respect of loss of or damage to property occurring, whether on land or on water, in direct connexion with the operation of the ship ;

(e) claims for salvage, wreck removal and contribution in general average.


Priority of liens

The maritime liens set out in section 83 shall take priority over mortgages and preferential rights registered under Chapter 4, or arising under the State Debtors Ordinance or
the Insolvency Ordinance, and no other claim shall take priority over them, except as is provided in section 86.


Order of priority of liens

The maritime liens set out in section 83
 
(a) shall rank in the order in which they are set down in that section, provided however that maritime liens securing claims for salvage, wreck removal and contribution in general average shall lake priority over all other maritime liens which have attached to the ship prior to the time when the operations giving rise to such liens were performed ;

(b) shall, in the case of claims arising under paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of section 83. rank pan passes among themselves;

(c) shall, in the case of claims arising under paragraph (e) of section 83, rank in the inverse order of the time when the claim secured thereby accrued; and for this purpose claims for salvage shall be deemed to have accrued on the date on which the salvage operation was terminated, and claims for general average shall be deemed to have accrued on the day on which the general average act was performed.