“arising] out of the possession or operation of the ship.” Thomason v. United States, 184 F.2d 105, 107 (9th Cir.1950). “The phrase includes damages arising from those acts for which a private ship is held legally responsible as a juristic person under the customary legal terminology of the admiralty law.” Id. at 107-08. We held, for instance, that “unpaid compensation for seamen’s services” were “damages caused by a public vessel.” Id. at 108. Similarly, in American Stevedores, Inc. v. Porello, 330 U.S. 446, 448-54, 67 S.Ct. 847, 91 L.Ed. 1011 (1947), the Supreme Court held that a longshore-man’s claim for personal injury resulting from the fall of a beam, negligently secured by a federal employee, constituted “damages caused by a public vessel.” See also id. at 453, 67 S.Ct. 847 (<HOLDING>). In Canadian Aviator, Ltd. v. United States,
holding that federal courts have no subject matter jurisdiction to hear a claim against the united states or one of its agencies absent a clear waiver of sovereign immunity recognizing federal constitutional claim against the united states recognizing the growing feeling of congress that the united states should put aside its sovereign armor in cases where federal employees have tortiously caused personal injury or property damage holding that the ats does not waive the united states sovereign immunity holding that sovereign immunity does not bar extinguishment of united states junior lien in proceeding in which united states was not a party