Sentence examples for maritime town from inspiring English sources

Until the late 1960s it was Norway's third largest maritime town.

Chalcedon, modern Kadiköy, ancient maritime town on the eastern shore of the Bosporus, opposite modern Istanbul, Turkey.

Essentially a maritime town, it is popular as a bathing resort, and many of its inhabitants are engaged in seafaring and fishing.

The Zenith docked first in Hamilton, the centrally situated capital, and later in the week hugged the coastline to reposition itself off St . George the historic maritime town on the eastern tip of the hook-shaped archipelago.

Maritime towns often depicted a ship with a furled sail; inland towns often showed the guildhall or the town itself.

But the relative isolation this harsh landscape affords also means the fishing villages, hill villages and maritime towns built on and under these slopes have been able to hold on to their charm and beauty as stubbornly as they've clung on to the mountains on which they're so precariously built.

The town's maritime museum chronicles the fishing techniques Norwegians brought to the Northwest.

Even Mr. Fiedler's finely detailed paintings of dories, ketches and rock-strewn beaches bear testament to the town's maritime history.

Although it's not quite a resort, the town's maritime connections with the continent mean a steady drip of visitors along its L-shaped Ha'penny Pier (so called because of the halfpenny toll charged when it opened in 1853), and esplanade, where pensioners sit three to a bench.

The maritime approaches to the town also provide the context for a cultural display of religious allegiance and power through the symbolism of conspicuously sited mosques and a more perplexing series of causeways.

Milford Haven Museum, located in the marina, houses a collection which focusses on the maritime history of the town.