Yet seamen may entitle themselves to salvage for services performed on board their own vessel, if clearly beyond the line of their regular duty; as, when the crew rise and rescue the vessel from the enemy after she has been taken.[272] So, where a ship was abandoned at sea, and one or two men voluntarily remained behind, and by great exertions brought her into port.[273] If an apprentice is a salvor, he, and not his master, is entitled to the salvage.[274] If one set of men go on board a wreck, but fall into distress and are relieved by others, they do not lose their claim for salvage, but each set of salvors shares according to the merit of its services. If the second set take advantage of the necessity and distress of the first salvors to impose terms upon them, as, that they shall give up all claim for salvage, such conditions will not be regarded by the court.[275] [272] 1 Pet. Ad. 306. [273] 2 Cr. 240. 1 Pet. Ad. 48. [274] 2 Cr. 240. 2 Pet. Ad. 282. [275] 1 Sumner, 400. End of Project Gutenberg's The Seaman's Friend, by Richard Henry Dana