Definition of "unsinkable"
unsinkable
adjective
comparative more unsinkable, superlative most unsinkable
(chiefly of ships) That cannot be sunk.
Quotations
The Sydney water team are hoping that by showing families the 'unflushable' and 'unsinkable' items, that the environment will be a lot better off.
2021 December 23, ElizaMcPhee, “Kids' toys, jewellery and a BRICK: The bizarre things Sydneysiders tried to flush down their toilet - wih flushed wet wipes costing $8MILLION a year”, in Daily Mail Australia
The RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner which had been marketed as “unsinkable”, sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912, on a route from Britain to the US after being holed by an iceberg, claiming the lives of 1,514 of the 2,224 passengers and crew.
2023 June 19, Edward Helmore, Leyland Cecco, “Search under way for tourist submarine missing on dive to wreck of Titanic”, in The Guardian
noun
plural unsinkables
A ship that was designed to be unsinkable.
Quotations
As the construction and preparation of the unsinkables would require six weeks or two months , I thought it best to make report of my plan to the admiral before the departure from Key West .
1898 December, Richard Pearson Hobson, “The Sinking of the "Merrimac"”, in Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder, editors, The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 57, number 2, page 266
But no large ship has vanished without trace since the whaleback Clifton, another of the “unsinkables” and skippered by Emmet Gallagher of Beaver Island, sailed through a crack in Lake Huron on September 22, 1924, taking all hands — a total of 28— down with her.
1989, William Ratigan, Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals