Therefore, the sliding bearing offers the advantage of reducing the support-structure volume, which is important in the design of the relatively narrow port duct of the JT-60SA.
The rectangular casemate was pierced with eight narrow gun ports, one each at the bow and stern and three along each side.
Weehawken and Nahant were able to freely maneuver into positions from which the Atlantas narrow gun ports would not allow her to reply and the damage already inflicted by the former ship made further resistance futile.
If you prefer sea breezes to narrow streets, the port area has the Hotel Neptuno (13) at Avenida de Neptuno 2 (00 34 96 356 7777; hotelneptunovalencia.com ).
On Wednesday Mr Brown told the committee that the upturn in the global economy would help boost British ex ports and narrow the trade gap, currently running at record levels.
Plan to explore ports along narrow waterways such as China's Yangtze River, the Nile River in Egypt or even the Amazon River in Brazil and Peru.
Instead of patrolling the focal areas [where vessels congregate near ports or narrow passages], the group of ships forming the convoy is escorted by an armed escort capable of dealing with any possible scale of attack.
From this part of Governors Island you can see the Statue of Liberty, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the shipping ports of New Jersey and South Brooklyn, and the passing Staten Island Ferry.
Soon, a half million people were trapped on the port's narrow wharves, the city in flames behind them; "The streets were stacked with dead," a British officer wrote.
In the closing days of World War II, it was Russia's turn as Stalin's troops drove the Japanese across the narrow strait, turning this port into a fearful, refugee-clogged city.
