Wiktionary
a. Without a captain.
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 conĀceived 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.