A drunken captain of the ship.

The story of theJuno's drunken captain could in fact be the story of the captain of any ship: everything depended on him.

Unlike the environmentally disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill four years earlier (a clear-cut case of negligence involving a drunken captain), it wasn't as if Shell was doing anything illegal.

Its drunken captain Yusuf Al Halal forced over 300 immigrants at gun-point onto another smaller ship.

Not so long ago, while I was escaping from the French at Brest,none of you could do anything about a drunken captain sent to theCalypso.

The latter, in their impatience, would have liked nothing better than to bind this drunken captain, and lower him into the hold, for the rest of the voyage.

The ferry is nearly wrecked in a typhoon, but Conrad wrests command from the cowardly and drunken captain and saves the ship.

We do not need studies to tell us that the status quo, where any drunken captain or incompetent mate can foul an entire coastline, is intolerable.

At age 18, he was made a captain, having taken control of a ship with a drunken captain and a first mate who was unable to navigate.

Alternately I appealed to one and another of the three men,-- first to the grey-haired man to let me land, and then to the drunken captain to keep me aboard.