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
It was understood that this way was long and hard and cold, yet thousands eagerly embarked on keels of all designs and of all conditions of unseaworthiness.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
I pulled it open enough to look in, and there, within three feet of me, was Choate, addressing a jury in a case of marine insurance, where the defence was the unseaworthiness of the vessel.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
Some of these could make but slow headway because of their unseaworthiness, but when all was over the Russians are said to have lost two-thirds of their entire force.
From A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens
