2 adjectives to describe wessels

There was hurricanes ashore as tore up forests and blowed down towns, and there was gales at sea, even in them latitudes, as not the stoutest wessel ever launched could live in.

Was one?" "Aboard o' that there unfortunate wessel," said the captain, rising from his chair, and clenching his hand with prodigious energy and exultation, "was a lad, a gallant ladas I've heard tellthat had loved when he was a boy to read and talk about brave actions in shipwrecksI've heerd him!I've heerd him!and

2 adjectives to describe  wessels