seaworthiness
noun
the fact or state of being seaworthy; fitness for travel by water.
unseaworthiness
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a word derived from
seaworthiness.
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a word derived from
seaworthy.
Example Sentences
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The filing said the accident was a “direct and proximate” result of the Singaporean firms’ “carelessness, negligence, gross negligence, and recklessness, and as a result of the unseaworthiness of the vessel.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Ruling that unseaworthiness was the only ground for such a suit, a British judge dismissed the case.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boats were very seaworthy, and no lives were lost in operations from England owing to unseaworthiness.'
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Deserting and abandoning her by reason of unseaworthiness or danger of remaining in her, also when grounded and cannot be saved.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
In the belief that reprisals only were being resorted to against Venezuela one was therefore glad to hear that the sinking of gunboats by the Germans had been explained as rendered necessary by their unseaworthiness.
From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
