What is "captainless"

Usage examples of "captainless".

Unfortunately, a captainless ship, thought Signora Strega-Borgia, blinking rapidly to forestall the inevitable tears that came when her thoughts turned to her missing husband.

Calling on his rusty seminary skill, the Irishman was a little appalled when he translated it in his head: I am carried violently off Like a captainless ship, Just as down the highways of the sky A vagrant bird is driven.

Oh Dear conceived that Bolz might be deserting and this would leave him captainless and unable to get back to Voltar.

Oh Dear con­ceived that Bolz might be deserting and this would leave him captainless and unable to get back to Voltar.

A burning brand, its captainless crew was desperately trying to tie off the radian draws before power to the crystals spilled her side ways.