Plaintiffs are five Filipino seamen who were discharged from Defendant Spiliada Maritime ... This court now makes the following Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. ... and no one at Buenamar or aboard M/V SPILIADA altered the contracts. ... Under "Cause of Discharge" in plaintiffs' seaman's books, Captain Marmaras.... by DP Barrows Cited by 129 No pretensions are made to an exhaustive character for the book. ... history of Spanish occupation and conquest of the Philippines, we find many