How To Use Unseaworthy In A Sentence

  • The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
  • He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
  • Why do they persist in risking their lives in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
  • That is because the essence of unseaworthiness as a cause of loss or damage is that the unseaworthy ship is unfit to meet the peril.
  • We have even read stories of clients of the smugglers being forced at gunpoint by Indonesian armed forces to join and stay on obviously unseaworthy boats.
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  • Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
  • Why have they chosen to put their lives at risk by travelling in cramped conditions aboard unseaworthy vessels?
  • We have been accommodating to the boats that are unseaworthy for 18 months now.
  • In October 2001, over 400 asylum-seekers departed from Indonesia in an overcrowded, unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
  • The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
  • The bomber scored a direct hit on the bridge area, but it did not render the ship unseaworthy.
  • Having gained power through this coup d'etat, Antonio then proceeded to 'banish' his brother in such a way as to ensure the death of Prospero and his infant daughter, casting them adrift in an unseaworthy sea vessel with only the supply of food and water provided for them by a kindly old courtier named Gonzalo. Shakespeare
  • As she was in the habit of obeying his commands very literally, and as a few hours after he left Lisbon a little cockleshell of a steamer came in, she embarked in this most unseaworthy boat the afternoon of the same day, though she had no proper accommodation for passengers. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
  • According to survivors' accounts, the boat was so unseaworthy that 21 people had earlier asked to be put back to shore and were left on a small Indonesian island.
  • It was in an attempt to catch substandard, unseaworthy ships that the European Union toughened its port inspection procedures following the Erika incident off the French coast.
  • While on its voyage, and after it had left Indonesian waters, but not yet reached Australian waters the ship became progressively unseaworthy - a prelude to the disaster that saw its demise.
  • The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
  • In other words, a boat, already known to be too unseaworthy to make the distance, could simply be allowed to founder, without the government appearing to have any involvement whatsoever.
  • Marine investigators probing the mysterious loss of a Scottish trawler with all hands 27 years ago have obtained crucial new evidence that the boat was unseaworthy.
  • The boats he boarded were unseaworthy and one became lost at sea for fourteen days after a ferocious storm.
  • The crew refused to go to sea in such an unseaworthy vessel.
  • He is launched onto the Indian Ocean in an unseaworthy boat bound for Australia.
  • In fact the vendor knew that she was unseaworthy.
  • He exposed them to great danger, sending them off in overcrowded and unseaworthy boats that experienced engine failure, or sank.
  • One of the overcrowded, unseaworthy boats later ran aground off the coast of Timor and three Iraqi men drowned.
  • Thought I better email you to warn you to avoid small, unseaworthy craft at night for the next little while. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Redrawing the national border for migration purposes will force desperate asylum seekers to try to sail in unseaworthy boats all the way to the mainland, evading and fleeing from warships along the way.
  • Instead, in his view, they may have knowingly allowed the heavily overloaded and unseaworthy boat to leave Indonesia and sink soon afterwards.
  • It is hard to imagine what makes people desperate enough to leave their country to prowl the oceans in unseaworthy boats.
  • Arguing that profiteering shipowners and unscrupulous insurers were collaborating in sending out unseaworthy vessels, the play led to popular outrage and a change in the law.
  • The draft report suggests the 26 ft open-deck fishing boat was unseaworthy, overloaded and unstable.

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