Those that are still afloat are becoming old, and many of them unseaworthy.
People are dispatched to sea aboard unseaworthy craft in the middle of winter.
The fact is, there are people who take to the ocean in unseaworthy vessels, and they need support while they are on the high seas.
The shipping industry does not seek to avoid proper responsibility for dangerously unseaworthy ships.
The first point concerns a vessel going to sea in an unseaworthy condition.
In other cases, experience has shown that it is only by requiring vessels to he made permanently unseaworthy that we can guarantee meeting our obligations.
Not only was there evidence of its unseaworthy condition, but as a matter of fact the ship went down.
Our indictment to-day is not against the general body of the shipowners of this country but against those who use unseaworthy ships.
