(1) These Supplemental Rules apply to:
(A) the procedure in admiralty and
maritime claims within the meaning of Rule 9(h) with respect to
the following remedies:
(i) maritime attachment and
garnishment,
(ii) actions in rem,
(iii) possessory, petitory, and partition
actions, and
(iv) actions for exoneration from or
limitation of liability;
(B) forfeiture actions in rem arising from
a federal statute; and
(C) the procedure in statutory
condemnation proceedings analogous to maritime actions in rem,
whether within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction or not.
Except as otherwise provided, references in these Supplemental
Rules to actions in rem include such analogous statutory
condemnation proceedings.
(2) The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
also apply to the foregoing proceedings except to the extent that
they are inconsistent with these Supplemental Rules.