Sentence examples for anchorages off from inspiring English sources

Assaults are typically carried out against ships as they: –transit the heavily congested Bab el-Mandeb Strait; –await designated entry time-slots at anchorages off the Djibouti coast; –sail inside the 50-nautical-mile safety limit the IMB has recommended for passages along the East African coast (200 nautical miles in the case of Somalia).

In 1923, two scouting ships investigated the possibility of establishing anchorages off the Islands, and attempted to claim the United States Army's bases on the Aleutians for the purposes of national security.

The anchorage off the village affords good holding ground, and is free of shoals.

The Brussel, carrying coal to Venezuela from Canada, had stopped for fuel in Stapleton Anchorage off northern Staten Island, officials said.

John Christiansen, a spokesman for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, said the Panamanian-flagged Teknik Perdana left Friday from its anchorage off Venezuela's Margarita Island.

Serving as the skipper of the submarine Tirante, Mr. Street, then a lieutenant commander, brought his boat into the Japanese anchorage off Quelpart Island, a high, rocky spot containing an air base, in the early hours of April 14 , 1945

The first great passenger liner built primarily for cruis ing once the Cunarder Caro nia, now the Caribia of Panamanian registry swings with the tide running through the Red Hook anchorage off the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.

The ship, which lost power as a result of the fire, was towed to an anchorage off Brooklyn in the Upper Bay, but proceeded under her own power late in the afternoon to Port Newark.