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Example sentences for "unseaworthy"

Lexicographically close words:
unseasoned; unseat; unseated; unseating; unseaworthiness; unsectarian; unsecured; unseeing; unseeingly; unseemliness
  1. The verdict of the Court of Admiralty was that the accident was due to the fact that the "Leda" was unseaworthy and unfit to be taken to Odessa.

  2. Bremen, proved to have been put to sea in a wholly unseaworthy condition.

  3. The storm over, Kendrick found himself in a sad plight, his consort gone, perhaps lost, his ship in an unseaworthy condition, and the nearest spot for repairs a thousand miles distant.

  4. It had been used as a boat, but condemned as unseaworthy as soon as Dolly could not sit in it to be pushed about, the gunwale having split open amidships.

  5. They are, with few exceptions, as unseaworthy as they are comfortless, which says a great deal.

  6. Both have been at anchor for about four years, and are practically unseaworthy and useless.

  7. The first of these ships of the Great Mogul he looted and burned, and to the second, the Quedah Merchant, he transferred his flag after forsaking the leaky, unseaworthy Adventure Galley on the Madagascar coast.

  8. Reports had before been spread that so weatherbeaten and unseaworthy were these ships, that they were not again to be sent to Europe, but to be retained in the harbour for the protection of the colony.

  9. D'ye know, I've a fondness for that old craft, though she is about as unseaworthy a schooner as sails out o' the port of London.

  10. Ships were allowed to be sent to sea in an unseaworthy condition.

  11. Illustration: Bearing up for Shelter] Fayal offers especially favourable opportunities for the obsequies of an unseaworthy ship insured beyond her value.

  12. Indeed the craft looked like the pictures of an ancient British coracle, and was so light and unseaworthy that every wave washed into it.

  13. It is but fair to add that the unseaworthy condition of the Waterloo was distinctly denied at Lloyd's.

  14. Waterloo must have been unseaworthy when she left England.

  15. We may now therefore have great hopes, that there will be speedily some good result, from the spirited manner in which this question of sending unseaworthy vessels to sea has been brought before the public.

  16. It was usually with reference to half-unseaworthy ships, which added to the trials and troubles of his men and oftentimes precluded him from doing himself justice where the enemy was concerned.

  17. Three months later the newly-wedded captain was at Spithead, the almost unseaworthy condition of the Boreas making it impossible for her to stand another hurricane season in the West Indies.

  18. The vessel in which Las Casas sailed was likewise declared unseaworthy and was condemned, thereby causing its owner much loss and debarring him from the means of transit.

  19. Even his two remaining vessels, into which were now crowded the crews of the four, were in a very unseaworthy condition, and were only kept afloat by incessant labour at the pumps.

  20. The three vessels continued their course for the Moluccas, but the Concepcion proved so unseaworthy that they had to beach and burn her.

  21. You are not a man that would stoop to deceive the poorest sort of devil on earth, or make a ship unseaworthy every time he takes her to sea.

  22. A ship's unseaworthy when her captain can't see.

  23. Mr. Plimsoll was rightly convinced that unseaworthy vessels left port for the sake of insurance money on valued policies, that the lives of the seamen were thereby imperilled, and that the poor sailor had no redress before the law.

  24. On the 2nd of February, a vessel arrived at Acapulco, and reported the Spanish frigates to the southward, whither, notwithstanding the unseaworthy state of the ships, I determined to proceed in search of them.

  25. How the unseaworthy transports managed to carry their human freights without loss of life from dangers of the sea is one of those curious mysteries of God’s providence.

  26. After some delay, they sailed up the Mediterranean, reaching Marseilles, where they had to stop some time to repair their unseaworthy ships, and then followed the king to the Straits of Messina, where the fleets combined.

  27. The first batteries of this kind, used successfully at Kinburn, were otherwise unseaworthy and unmanageable, and were little more than heavily-plated and more or less covered barges.

  28. It must be remembered that we were now in the open bay, in the full line of the great ice-drift to the Atlantic, and in boats so frail and unseaworthy as to require constant baling to keep them afloat.

  29. The transhipment of Walker and his men was safely effected at immense risk, and they reached home in a sorry plight, this vessel proving almost as unseaworthy as the other.

  30. To send unseaworthy ships to sea is to bring disgrace on the national name.

  31. We have of late been turning our attention to unseaworthy ships, and the amount of wise and unwise talk that this important subject has evoked has been great and surprising.

  32. And then think of those scoundrels in the bigger countries, who for the sake of profit send out freights in one unseaworthy ship after another-- Bernick: I am not talking of unseaworthy ships!


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