Meanings of very leaky in English

I can't complain - well apart from the mud inside some very leaky tents.

I fear she is very leaky, sir, said the mate.

His pumpers (sic) are bad, and his vessel is very leaky.

I dare say it won't be very leaky.

We found a very leaky spot in the fore peak, which was mostly made good by cementing.

He kept in the same parallel, upon a wind; the weather being bad, and his boat very leaky.

It is a very leaky boat.

The ship was very leaky all the way, and Hunter reported that she returned to port with her pumps going.

The ship was found to be very leaky in her upper works, and the sails in the store got very wet.

On the morning of the 1st of May we set out from the Cedars, the barge very deep and very leaky.

She had, however, lost a considerable amount of sheathing from the bows, and had become very leaky from the blows received.

Leaving Newcastle in a very leaky condition, and encountering a gale, the water gradually gained fast upon her and stopped her progress.

Former Australian Medical Association president Kerryn Phelps has criticised the NSW Government for its lax approach to border control saying "that's a very leaky sieve".

Bradford says: "They met with many contrary winds and fierce storms with which their ship was shrewdly shaken and her upper works made very leaky."

"You'd been shot near the heart," the doctor said, "had a very leaky hole.