disableness

That ships when they are a little shattered must not take the liberty to come in of themselves, but refit themselves the best they can and stay out, many of our ships coming in with very little disableness.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

That ships when they are a little shattered must not take the liberty to come in of themselves, but refit themselves the best they can, and stay out -- many of our ships coming in with very small disableness.

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847