ill-sailing

Updated: May 8, 2025

The Carthaginians, seeing in the ill-sailing and unwieldy vessels of the Romans an easy prey, fell upon them in irregular order; but the newly invented boarding-bridges proved their thorough efficiency.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

I am quite vexed at the result which was such, however, as might have been expected from the bad manning of the squadron. I have determined to proceed forthwith to the Moro San Paulo, and to leave there the ill-sailing vessels.

Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald - Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil,: from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2

The Carthaginians, seeing in the ill-sailing and unwieldy vessels of the Romans an easy prey, fell upon them in irregular order; but the newly invented boarding-bridges proved their thorough efficiency.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States