The provisions of the preceding two Articles apply mutatis mutandis to an accident in which a ship has come extremely close to another ship due to an act relating to the former ship's navigation or handling or an act in violation of laws and regulations concerning ships, and has damaged the latter ship or people or objects on the latter ship.
ship
「船舶」
In the part on maritime commerce (except Article 747), a ship used for navigation for the purpose of commercial transactions (商行為), other than rowboats and other boats driven only or mainly by oars.
Defined inArticle 684, paragraph (1)