Liability of owner causing damage to pier, jetty, etc.

Where any vessel or drift fouls any pier, jetty, wharf or quay and causes damage thereto, the owner or the master of the vessel or the owner of the drift, or where any person, causes damage to any pier, jetty, wharf or quay, such person shall be liable for the amount of damage caused. Such amount may be ascertained in the prescribed manner and recovered either by seizure and sale of such vessel or drift and of any property thereon or in such other manner as may be prescribed.