armator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armators
Etymology: From French armateur.
Senses: examples: text: If the ſaid deſerters can only be arreſted after the departure of the ſhip, they ſhall be condemned to eight days confinement, to return the advances, and to pay to the captain, or the armators, the damages ariſing from their deſertion, if there are any; and ſhall make a campaign of three months in the ſhips of his majeſty, at two-thirds of pay.
ref: 1791, [John Borlase Warren], A View of the Naval Force of Great-Britain: In which Its Present State, Growth, and Conversion, of Timber; Constructions of Ships, Docks, and Harbours; Regulations of Officers and Men in Each Department; Are Considered and Compared with Other European Powers. […], London: […] J[ohn] Sewell, […], page 125:
text: Thus, when a difference arose between the armators of two privateers on the subject of sharing the prize Jeune Française of Calais “sur le pied d’homme pour homme,” the Court ordered sale of the cargo by both armators jointly (Amirauté 4, f.12). […] John Bowden, armator of the Prosperous Galley, Captain Hubert, brought such an action in the Royal Court in 1707 concerning differences with the armators of the Marlborough, Captain Naftel, about the claim of the Prosperous to have shared in the capture of the St. James of Ile de Dars. […] The armators of the Marlborough contended that Bowden and Hubert were out of power to prosecute before another Court while the case was before the Court of Jugements.
ref: 1987, John Selwyn Bromley, Corsairs and Navies, 1600-1760, London; Ronceverte, W.V.: The Hambledon Press, →ISBN, page 372:
text: The second berth serves a ferry line linking the Stockholm agglomeration and Gdansk - operated by a Swedish armator 3 times a week. […] The Polish Baltic Steamship Co - leading Polish ferry armator - should operate in the near future at least two new ferries - built on fixed routes. […] The ferry is the most modern operated by Polish armators - equipped with the latest solutions in the field of passenger safety, and all modern conveniences. […] In turn, Polish Baltic Steamship Company as an armator has opened a new line from Swinoujscie to Malmo - which is situated only 45km away from Ystad. It creates a new situation of competition between the two Polish ferry armators who operate on the Baltic Sea.
ref: 1996, Gillian Ledger, International Studies in Shipping Policy and Management, University of Plymouth, →ISBN:
text: For instance, a manufacturer who buys metals under a FOB specification is responsible for organizing the shipping but the armator is in charge of managing the shipping and holds the corresponding risk.
ref: 2005, Hélyette Geman, Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy (Wiley Finance), Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Eleven children died during the forty-one day journey to Algiers as a consequence of the armators’ scrimping on costs.
ref: 2005, Jennifer Elson Sessions, Making Colonial France: Culture, National Identity and the Colonization of Algeria, 1830-1851, University of Pennsylvania, page 244:
glosses: A shipowner.