seagoing
Speech parts
1. seagoing - Adjective
2. seagoing - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels.
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Examples
[A]ny seagoing vessel-commercial or military, from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea to the Caribbean-could be monitored by the United States Navy, who could choose to watch it, stop it, or sink it.
Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
seafaring vessels
Although he never stood again, he was able to sit up and write several times, and his recovery was viewed so positively that a steamer was fitted out as a seagoing hospital to aid with his convalescence.
Although the Russian pioneers were skilled builders of river boats they lacked the knowledge and equipment to build seagoing vessels which meant that Okhotsk remained a coastal settlement and not a port.
Given barely two months to assemble a large seagoing invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft.