2. Personal Liability.—
His personal liability is practically unlimited. The owner may confine his liability to the value of the ship but the master has no such privilege. Thus materialmen may sue the master personally for supplies and repairs (General Admiralty Rule 12);[7] the sailors may sue him for their wages (Rule 13); the pilot, for pilotage (Rule 14); suits for collision may be brought against him alone (Rule 15), and he is responsible for moneys loaned the ship in a foreign port (Rule 17); so, also he is liable for cargo injured by the ship and may be sued by the underwriters therefor (Co. v. Dexter, 52 Fed. 152).