Preserving order on board vessel

The master of a vessel, or any person acting by his order, may justify the use of any such force against any person on 44 board the vessel as is necessary for suppressing any mutiny or disorder on board the vessel, whether among officers, seamen or passengers, whereby the safety of the vessel, or of any person therein or about to enter or quitting the same, is likely to be endangered, or the master is threatened to be subjected to the commands of any other person, and may kill any person who is guilty of or abets such mutiny or disorder, if the safety of the vessel or the preservation of any person as aforesaid cannot by any means be otherwise secured.