Stormy weather threatened the ships, rendering many of them barely seaworthy and causing major delays.

Small fishing dories, some barely seaworthy, bobbed on the black, sewage-rich water and thumped against rotting pilings.

Privately, military people admitted that the thing was not landworthy, barely seaworthy, undefendable and useless in war.

She looked out to sea and saw some crofters in a barely seaworthy little boat, heaving their tattered nets over the side into the water.

Not a single vessel was sunk or captured on either side but the mutual battering left many ships barely seaworthy and casualties on both sides were high.

The Army was left with a mixed bag of rickety ships that were barely seaworthy.

He then left for Rome, sailing on a barely seaworthy Austrian ship, the "Bellona", which did not even have cooking facilities.

Many ships either damaged in storms or barely seaworthy to begin with had constant rotations of crewmen pumping out water.

The ship was barely seaworthy.

The makeshift raft is shown as barely seaworthy as it rides the deep waves, while the men are rendered as broken and in utter despair.