Unsinkable

Definitions

A ship that was designed to be unsinkable.

Equivalents

Examples

“As the construction and preparation of the unsinkables would require⟳ six weeks or two months , I thought it best to make⟳ report⟳ of my plan⟳ to the admiral before the departure from Key West .”

“German unsinkables with their penetrating shell and safety magazines? That there was this acute material disparity between this type⟳ of ship of both nations there can be no doubt⟳.”

“But no large ship has vanished without trace since the whaleback Clifton, another of the “unsinkables” and skippered by Emmet Gallagher of Beaver Island, sailed through a crack in Lake Huron on September 22, 1924, taking all hands — a total of 28— down with her.”

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