The phrase "a leaking ship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe a situation or organization that is failing or has significant problems.
Example: "The company was like a leaking ship, with employees leaving and profits dwindling."
Alternatives: "a sinking ship" or "a troubled vessel".
Reducing population, Dr. Commoner wrote, was "equivalent to attempting to save a leaking ship by lightening the load and forcing passengers overboard".
Verdasco was now down a set and a break and even though other areas of his game were still working fine, the double faults created substantial holes in a leaking ship that ultimately sank all chance of an unlikely victory.
We always knew that Nikon was a leaking ship, adrift in the digital camera sea, but this latest leak proves it.
"It was a little bit of a leaking ship, but it got across the ocean," he said.
This is not because it's a decrepit, leaking ship, as often depicted, but because every modern healthcare system in the world will always need more money, more research and more beds, to give patients the best chance of treatment.
He questioned why it took six hours to start skimming and 13 hours to get a boom around the leaking ship.
Somehow the ancient, creaking, leaking ship, in the reader's imagination, was forever on the high seas.
On arriving at Malta, Inman anchored his leaking ship in deep water under the guns of the port's defensive batteries and then removed his entire crew, leaving instructions with the prisoners that they could either pump out the water and repair the damage or drown when the ship sank.
And can there be a more tersely poetic description of Columbus's "discovery" of Jamaica than "Three leaking ships filled with lost men came towards them bearing Hard Life"?
Sandinista leaders denied reports of a leaked party memo detailing plans to ship supporters to the capital and supply them with homemade weapons to obstruct a march scheduled for next Saturday.
A former U.S. Navy sailor, Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2009 for leaking classified ship movements to a Web site run by the two Britons.
