What is "crewless"

Usage examples of "crewless".

Then too, O'Malley had heard legends about crewless ghost ships, The Flying Dutchman, for example, although in that case the captain was reputed to be still aboard, doomed to drift for all eternity because of a gamble that he'd lost with the Devil.

The most famous abandoned ship was the Marie Celeste, a brigantine transporting commercial alcohol from New York to Italy, found crewless between the Azores and Portugal in 1872.

He knows it was not long after Nooch's funeral, because he'd been alone and crewless at whatever moment whoever handed him two 50 mg.

Indeed, it was a miracle of technological improvisation, with raultron-ic instruments useless for maintaining remote control over the crewless ejector.

ELEVEN On returning to her office, the commander found waiting for her a small pile of communications that had arrived within the hour, carried to Hyperborea on a crewless interstellar courier that had been delayed many days in flight.

Or, she thought, this was a crewless observation vessel, and it had sat there for days, months, perhaps even years, until the villagers, impatient for consequences, had turned upon the ship in anger and disappointment.

Events so far had demonstrated that even the newest Solarian fighters were not really a match for the crewless Voids.