Meanings of hapless crew in English

The other boats had not succeeded in saving any of the hapless crew.

Over went the boat, and all her hapless crew were engulfed.

There was a wild shriek of despair from her hapless crew.

Rain pouring from black skies drilled the wooden raft and its hapless crew.

And yet the whole hapless crew, winners and losers, call themselves "sportsmen."

The frail ones of the hapless crew soon perished.

Numbers of the hapless crew were washed away.

At length, with a sad heart, I saw the vessel with her hapless crew drive by me.

There was not a moment to be lost, already, probably, numbers of the hapless crew were being swept to destruction.

The next sea swept her decks, carrying many of the hapless crew overboard, and washing away the caboose and a large portion of the bulwarks.

Splashes of blood here and there on the deck showed that several of the hapless crew had been killed or wounded while defending their ship.

The hapless crew lingered on for two days, suffering cruelly from hunger and thirst, their cries ringing in our ears above the storm's pitiless fury.

"Had all on board seen her we could have rendered her hapless crew no assistance," I thought to myself, "so it does not signify."