IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
`EASTERN DIVISION
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`NO. 4:25-CV-118-FL
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`SEA FOAM 55, LLC,
`Plaintiff,
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`The Steamship PULASKI; her hull, cargo, ORDER
`tackle, boilers, machinery and
`appurtenances which lies approximately 40
`miles off the coast of North Carolina,
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`Defendant.
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`This matter is before the court on plaintiff’s motion for order issuing warrant for arrest.
`(DE 4). The court held hearing on the motion July 29, 2025. Counsel Stevenson L. Weeks, Esq.,
`appeared for plaintiff, accompanied by Tim Hudson, plaintiff’s operations manager. In this
`posture, the issues raised are ripe for ruling.
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`Plaintiff commenced this admiralty action July 1, 2025, and filed amended complaint July
`7, 2025, asserting a “salvage award claim” (Count I) and a “possessory and ownership claim”
`(Count II), arising under the Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset
`Forfeiture Actions, (hereinafter the “Supplemental Rules™). In the instant motion, plaintiff seeks
`an order, under Local Admiralty Rule E.2(a), authorizing the clerk to issue warrant for arrest
`against defendant,! and directing the United States Marshal to seize the cargo salvaged from
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`defendant.
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`! The motion also requests the clerk to “issue summons.” (DE 4 at 1). Where the clerk issued summons July
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`14,2025 (DE 8), this part of the motion is terminated as moot.
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`Upon review of the verified complaint and supporting papers, and in conjunction with
`argument at hearing, the court determines that the conditions set forth in Supplemental Rule C
`exist and that the clerk should be authorized to issue the warrant of arrest against the cargo salvaged
`from defendant. Therefore, the motion is GRANTED, and the court DIRECTS the clerk to issue
`the warrant of arrest against defendant in the form attached hereto,” directing the United States
`Marshal to seize cargo salvaged from defendant. And to secure the jurisdiction of this court,
`plaintiff is DIRECTED to deliver to the court, within 14 days of the date of this order, an item
`recovered from the salvage site of defendant.
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`SO ORDERED, this the 7th day of August, 2025.
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`UISE W. FLANAGAN
`United States District Judge
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`2 The court supplants the proposed version of the warrant lodged on the docket with the warrant attached
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`hereto, with formatting and style modified to conform to the court’s preferences.
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
`EASTERN DIVISION
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`NO. 4:25-CV-118-FL
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`SEA FOAM 55, LLC,
`Plaintiff,
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`V.
`The Steamship PULASKI; her hull, cargo, WARRANT OF ARREST
`tackle, boilers, machinery and
`appurtenances which lies approximately 40
`miles off the coast of North Carolina,
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`N N N N N N N N N N N N
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`Defendant.
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`TO: United States Marshal for the Eastern District of North Carolina:
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`Whereas, an amended complaint seeking the arrest of the cargo salvaged from the
`Steamship PULASKI, has been filed in the United States District Court for the United States for
`the Eastern District of North Carolina on the July 7, 2025, by plaintiff Sea Foam 55, LLC, against
`the cargo salvaged from the Steamship PULASKI, for the reasons and causes in the said amended
`complaint mentioned, and praying for the usual process and order of the said court in that behalf
`to be made, and that all persons interested in the said the cargo salvaged from the Steamship
`PULASKI, may be cited in general and special to answer the premises, and all proceedings being
`had, that the cargo salvaged from the Steamship PULASKI may for the causes in the said
`complaint mentioned, be condemned and sold to pay the demands of the plaintiff;
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`YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to attach the said the cargo salvaged from the
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`Steamship PULASKI, and to detain the same in your custody until the further order of the court
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`respecting same, and to give due notice to all persons claiming the same, or knowing or having
`anything to say why the same should not be condemned and sold pursuant to the prayer of the said
`amended complaint, and make your return to this court thereafter.
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`WITNESS, the Honorable Louise W. Flanagan, United States District Court Judge, this the
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`7th day of August, 2025.
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`Deputy Clerk
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`MARSHAL’S RETURN
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`In obedience to the within Warrant of Arrest, I attached the vessel, therein described on the
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`U. S. MARSHAL
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