unseaworthy


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unseaworthy

(ʌnˈsiːwɜːθɪ)
adj
(Sailing) not in a fit condition or ready for a sea voyage
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Adj.1.unseaworthy - unfit for a voyage
leaky - permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system"
seaworthy - fit for a sea voyage
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unseaworthy

[ˈʌnˈsiːˌwɜːðɪ] ADJinnavegable
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unseaworthy

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Quite young at the time I am speaking of, and a first-rate sailor; famous for taking command of unseaworthy ships and vagabond crews.
It would have been dangerous, however, to continue much longer at sea with such a crew of mutinous sailors; and, besides, the Rose Algier was leaky and unseaworthy. So Captain Phips judged it best to return to England.
The admired piratical ship had blown up, in the midst of a vast fleet of ships of all rates, and boats of all sizes; and on the deep was nothing but ruin; nothing but burning hulls, bursting magazines, great guns self-exploded tearing friends and neighbours to pieces, drowning men clinging to unseaworthy spars and going down every minute, spent swimmers floating dead, and sharks.
He is a good friend and a dangerous enemy, without mercy to unseaworthy ships and faint- hearted seamen.
Libya is a hub for migrants and refugees, many of whom try to reach Europe in unseaworthy boats.
The 69-year-old actor carried boxes of fruit on board the Open Arms ship yesterday and spoke to migrants who had fled war-torn Libya on unseaworthy smuggling boats before being rescued.
The actor, 69, spoke to several migrants who had fled war-torn Libya on unseaworthy smuggling boats before being rescued, among them a man and his baby.
The US Coast Guard said 'whether migrants attempt to illegally enter the United States via dangerously overloaded, unseaworthy or otherwise unsafe vessels or through human smuggling ventures, taking to the sea illegally is a hazardous risk to one's life.'
The migrants had been rescued from an unseaworthy vessel launched by Libya-based human traffickers but Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini had refused to let them disembark on Lampedusa until other European Union countries agreed to take them.
Speaking on Sunday, KMA director general George Okong'o said 50 per cent of the accidents involve vessels capsizing while 40 per cent are cases of drowning caused by unseaworthy vessels.
New displays also offer an insight into the testing of the Valentine tanks that proved so unseaworthy.