Sentence examples for crewless from inspiring English sources

As in the air and on the road, robust control systems will be needed to conform to existing regulations.The maritime industry is interested in crewless ships for two reasons.

In April, coastguards in Alaska used a cannon to sink the Ryou-Un Maru, a crewless and rusty fishing boat which had drifted within sight of Sitka and was in danger of impeding shipping lanes.

The fishing boat had, however, been unable to tow the crewless Japanese ship and the decision was taken to sink the vessel.

It withdrew and the Orlova was left crewless and adrift.

The most famous example is, of course, the Mary Celeste, the 100ft brigantine which was found floating, crewless but well-provisioned, in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.

Four bodies have been found inside a crewless boat floating off the north coast of Japan - the latest in a number of "ghost ships" found in recent weeks.

As the cars are pushed up the hump (in some yards, by locomotives that are crewless and under remote radio control from the yard's operations centre), electronic scanners confirm their identity by means of a light-reflective label, place the data (car owner, number, and type) in a computer, and then set switches to direct each car into the proper bowl track.

Beginning this week, the New Museum devotes its building to the artist's career, including its façade, where "Ghost Ship," a crewless, self-navigating yacht that sailed the North Sea in 2005, is now dangling.