Sentence examples for in a harbour from inspiring English sources

The place was like a cross-Channel ferry marooned in a harbour during a storm.

The crew would place the weapon in a harbour or another target reachable by sea.

Willoughby, with two ships, wintered in a harbour on the Kola Peninsula, where he and all his men perished.

The need to aim the guns when the ship could not be manoeuvred, as in a harbour, led to the development of the revolving turret.

So basic were the shapes he chose that they were never merely pans and crockery: serried bowls on a table could suggest rocks stacked in a dry stone wall or boats taking refuge in a harbour.

I'm standing in a harbour near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, trying to work out how to make several tons of gear disappear into a vessel barely two feet wide at its broadest point.

I recently saw a photo of a Chinese family's Christmas Eve in Tianjing, a harbour city near Beijing.

Seiche modes in a compound harbour (an "Outer Harbour" connected both to the sea and to an "Inner Harbour") were studied using water level data and a numerical model.

Black Prince was hulked in 1896 as a harbour training ship, stationed at Queenstown, and was renamed Emerald in 1903.

"This is not a beautiful landscape in Surrey or a harbour on the French Riviera.

Therefore she was renamed Océan, disarmed and hulked in 1936 and became a harbour training ship in Toulon.