Staff described the force as, "directionless, rudderless and clueless". Washington state arrived in a dismasted, rudderless ship that ran aground near Cape Flattery. In 1834, a dismasted, rudderless ship from Japan ran aground near Cape Flattery. After her death, Buckley seemed "dejected and rudderless", according to friend Christopher Little. Tua almost single-handedly resurrected a rudderless Alabama offense. She was refloated and crossed the Atlantic rudderless and taking on water. The "Leopard" drifts east with the wind, still rudderless, pumping all the time. Tum Shabana is a rudderless ship which simultaneously endeavors to straddle many genres. I felt like a rudderless boat, lost on a sea of collective insanity. The rudderless ferry is guided by cables stretching between four 55-foot towers. After 1947 the Ezhuthachan community was orphaned and community became rudderless. Without Williams, the Bucs appeared to be a rudderless team. Brad, meanwhile, is fired from Huckabees, leaving him rudderless. Many perceived Burke's dismissal as related to his "rudderless ship" comment. John Major's Conservatives, it said, were "tired, divided and rudderless".