A vessel that has been abandoned by the crew but has not sunk.
abandoned buildings and wasteland.
a ship abandoned on the high seas
deserted or abandoned as by an owner; "a derelict ship"
a vessel that has been left by its crew that has no intention to return and no hope of recovery
a vessel abandoned or forsaken on the high seas
afloat vessel that has been abandoned by the crew
Property, whether vessel or cargo which has been abandoned and deserted at sea by those who were in charge of it without any hope of recovering it
The Derelict is the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien. The Derelict was built by a species that have become known as The Space Jockeys. It was investigated by the Nostromo crew in response to a mistaken SOS signal originating from its location, LV-426, a fictitious moon (frequently but erroneously referred to as a planet) in the Zeta II Reticuli system.