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It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vessels, stealing down the river with their sailless masts against the evening sky, looked like phantom ships conveying cargoes of unrestful, tortured spirits into darkness.
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by William Sage
The ancient Angles had a saga which told of the arrival in their country of a boat, evidently sailless, oarless, and rudderless, containing only a child surrounded by arms and treasure.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
"O who can tell what days, what nights he spent, Of tideless, waveless, sailless, shoreless woe."
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
