Versions of s. 197(1)

The right of wages does not depend on the earning of freight, and every seaman and apprentice who would be entitled to demand and recover any wages, if the ship in which he has served had earned freight, is, subject to all other rules of law and conditions applicable to the case, entitled to demand and recover the wages, notwithstanding that freight has not been earned, but in all cases of wreck or loss of the ship, proof that the seaman has not exerted himself to the utmost to save the ship, cargo and stores bars his claim for wages.