Sentence examples for protected anchorage from inspiring English sources

There a Spanish attack was driven off and over the next two days the army continued inland, a detachment under Colonel Henry Paget seizing Port Mahon while the main army received the surrender of town after town, including Fournella, which overlooked the island's principal protected anchorage.

Manila Bay provides excellent protected anchorage, since it is sheltered by the mountains of Bataan Peninsula (west) and the Cordillera Central (east).

Ask most cruising sailors about their ideal sailing destination and tales will be told of tradewind passages, white-sand beaches and tropical sunsets taken in from the protected anchorage of a low-lying atoll.

The primary result of Hudson's voyage, and his report of a protected anchorage near good farmland, was the Dutch West India Company's decision to place a trading post on the southern shore of Manna-hata Island; by 1626 a settlement called New Amsterdam was established.

To contain the target ships, it needed to have a protected anchorage at least 6 mile wide.

Cowell's force eventually sheltered in a protected anchorage at the town of Griessie near Sourabaya, 570 mile to the west of Batavia.

Most of Nauru rises somewhat abruptly from the ocean, and there are no harbours or protected anchorages.

Because of the myriad of islands to the south of Vavaʿu Island and its many fine beaches and protected anchorages, the Vavaʿu Group has become a thriving tourist destination and a frequent stopover for yachts cruising the Pacific.

Entering over the reefs that protected the anchorage, Marengo's deeper keel scraped on the coral.

The island's coastline, though much indented, has relatively few protected deepwater anchorages.

At Side, facing the island of Cyprus, the remains of an ancient breakwater, built to protect the anchorage, can still be seen, but the area enclosed between it and the advancing shoreline is now not a stone's throw wide.