333. Attempt to cast away ships. Any person who attempts unlawfully to cast away or destroy a vessel, whether completed or not, or attempts unlawfully to do any act tending to the immediate loss or destruction of a vessel in distress, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. 334. Injuring animals. (1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen commits an offence. (2) If the animal in question is a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, bull, cow, ox, goat, pig, ram, ewe, wether or ostrich, or the young of any such animal, the offender commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years; and in any other case the offender commits a misdemeanour. 335. Punishment for malicious injuries in general. (1) Any person who wilfully and unlawfully destroys or damages any property commits an offence and is liable, if no other punishment is provided, to imprisonment for five years. (2) If the property in question is a dwelling house or a vessel, and the injury is caused by the explosion of any explosive substance, and if— (a) any person is in the dwelling house or vessel; or (b) the destruction or damage actually endangers the life of any person, the offender commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life. (3) (a) (b) (c) If the property in question— is a bank or wall of a river, canal, aqueduct, reservoir or inland water, or work which appertains to a dock, reservoir or inland water, and the injury causes actual danger of inundation or damage to any land or building; is a railway or is a bridge, viaduct or aqueduct which is constructed over a highway, railway or canal, or over which a railway, highway or canal passes, and the property is destroyed; or being a railway, or being any such bridge, viaduct or aqueduct, is damaged, and the damage is done with intent to render the