unstaunch

Updated: January 10, 2026

The ships were freighted with their frozen crews, and sailed for England; but, "being unstaunch, as it is supposed, by their two years' wintering in Lapland, sunk, by the way, with their dead, and them also that brought them." Ice floats about us now, and here is a whale blowing; a whale, too, very near Spitzbergen.

Richard Hakluyt - Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage