salvor

American  

[sal-ver] / ˈsæl vər /

noun

1. a person who salvages or helps to salvage a ship, cargo, etc.

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salvor British  

/ ˈsælvə /

noun

1. a person instrumental in salvaging a vessel or its cargo

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Etymology

Origin of salvor

First recorded in 1670–80; salv(age) + -or ²

Example Sentences

A salvor who declines to donate their winnings to the poor no longer risks “the curse and malediction of our mother the holy church,” as the law was written in the 1100s.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2020

Her life as a salvor seemed to require that she be in possession of a crazy array of skills: seamanship, engineering, calculus, rope climbing, parkour, mild piracy, among others.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2017

If you are ever tempted to invest in sunken treasure, says Robert Marx, a treasure salvor in Florida, there's just one thing to do.

From Reuters • Aug. 19, 2011

"The salvor is always protected under the law."

From Time Magazine Archive

The overwhelming enterprise, the risk, the danger, the toil multiplied by itself, the possible destruction of the salvor in his work, famine, fever, nakedness, distress—he had chosen all these for himself!

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor