Sentence examples for abandoned vessels from inspiring English sources

Marina and maritime officials around the country say they believe, however, that most of the abandoned vessels cluttering their waters are fully paid for.

The plight of the victims recently attracted international attention following the discovery of several abandoned vessels containing hundreds of starving Bangladeshi migrants and Rohingya refugees, which Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia all initially refused to allow ashore.

In January, the National Parks Service estimated that about 190 abandoned vessels — many of them small boats, apparently privately owned — had been left to rot in the 25,000 acres that make up Jamaica Bay.

More than two decades after the infamous garbage barge of 1987 moored in Brooklyn after haplessly floating to six states and three foreign countries in search of a dump, barges and abandoned vessels are again trashing New York waterways, city and state officials said.

A friend who recently crossed the channel to Turkey said that skins of abandoned vessels pocked the sea between the two countries, even though the official ships have been keeping their distance from the vessels, to stop the passengers from bursting them, and more and more dinghies are arriving on the shore intact.

A key issue addressed is the need to establish the ownership of abandoned vessels.

On Sept. 24, the Coast Guard found Mr. Archer and Mr. Zarabozo in the boat's life raft a few miles from the abandoned vessel and about 35 miles from Cuba.

The plight of the Lyubov Orlova has grabbed the imagination of the media with its tale of cannibal rats" aboard an abandoned vessel drifting in the north Atlantic -- possibly toward the U.K. On Thursday, reports surfaced that high winds could be pushing the vessel and its rats toward the shore of western Ireland, Scotland or the southern tip of England.

Just to the east of the club lie hulks of abandoned wooden vessels that still contain coal.

In 1849, William Tecumseh Sherman, a young Army officer in the Sierra, reported: "Not only did soldiers and sailors desert, but captains and masters of ships actually abandoned their vessels and cargoes to try their luck at the mines.

The best playing surface in the area was a vast expanse of hard, white sand that revealed itself at low tide, a field strewn with rocks, shells and remnants of abandoned fishing vessels.