Sentence examples for derelict vessel from inspiring English sources

Lt. David Dipre, who coordinates Florida's derelict vessel program, said the handful of owners he had managed to track down were guilty more of negligence than fraud.

The master of the fishing boat "initially expressed an interest in salvaging the derelict vessel," according to the Coast Guard's 17th District, but determined that it was not safe to salvage or tow and left the area.

Seventy-five yeafterfter Steinbeck and a scientist friend chartered the Flyer and sailed it from California to Mexico — and into literary legend in the book Steinbeck wrote about their adventures — the heavily damaged, derelict vessel is being refitted in a boatyard here with the idea of putting it back to work.

Maritime law essentially says that if you throw a rope on a derelict vessel, then it's yours (or at least the owner must pay a substantial release fee).

He took one look at it and immediately knew what his next project would be: converting the derelict vessel into a floating luxury hotel.

This bill will prevent the automatic sunset of the abandoned and derelict vessel program scheduled on Jan . 1 and RBOC is supporting this bill to make the program permanent.

Latham's tugs spent ten months shuttling between Haiti and Guantánamo that year, salvaging derelict vessels and supplying fuel to American troops.

And there's the rather uncanny fact that most of the 50 or so wrecked and derelict vessels that have been excavated in recent years have been found listing to port.

"In my view, 30 to 40percentt of the sunken boats are derelict vessels," he told me.

Apparently, it won't be the last as another 100 derelict vessels are predicted to float ashore from Japan over the next two years, among other things like a washed up Harley Davidson just a few weeks ago.

A derelict a vessel found entirely deserted or abandoned without hope or intention of recovery is, however, fair game for anyone who comes across it.