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15Larceny from ships, docks, &c

Every person who steals—

(1)any goods in any vessel, barge or boat of any description in any haven or any port of entry or discharge or upon any navigable river or canal or in any creek or basin belonging to or communicating with any such haven, port, river, or canal; or

(2)any goods from any dock, wharf or quay adjacent to any such haven, port, river, canal, creek, or basin ; or

(3)any part of any vessel in distress, wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or any goods, merchandise, or articles of any kind belonging to such vessel;

shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years.