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Meanings of unseaworthy in English

Unfit for a voyage.

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Usage of unseaworthy in English
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In these, overloaded, unseaworthy, they battled down the long chain of lakes.
Revolution, and Other Essays
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The migrants are taking often unseaworthy boats from Libya to Italy.
Reuters
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The Geier entered Honolulu on Oct. 15 in an unseaworthy condition.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine / The Eur...
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Many travel in overcrowded, unseaworthy boats after making large payments to unscrupulous middlemen.
Reuters
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Turret-ships, as first constructed, were very heavily, armoured, and in consequence rather unseaworthy.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves / Updated to 1900
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There were no indications the boat was unseaworthy, he said.
Radio NZ
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Although the Chrysolite carried five boats, no less than four of them were unseaworthy.
Stories by English Authors: The Sea
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A sailor never believes that his own ship is unseaworthy.
The Sowers
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Mainly African migrants are taking often unseaworthy boats from Libya to Italy, gateway to Europe.
Reuters
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The small boat is very much disabled and unseaworthy.
Canyons of the Colorado
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Captain Bouchier made this remark, I found, in consequence of the unseaworthy condition of his ship.
Paddy Finn
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Our ships were all unseaworthy from the first.
Fifty-One Tales
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The times were bad-his boat was old and unseaworthy- ahundredcrowns was a fortune to him.
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
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The INVESTIGATOR being then found unseaworthy, he returned to Port Jackson, after a visit to, Timor.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
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They are, with few exceptions, as unseaworthy as they are comfortless, which says a great deal.
A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
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They were unseaworthy, smeared bitumen-black, with big wooden structures built precariously at the stern and bow.
The Scar
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