Sentence examples for protected harbour from inspiring English sources

Its port is the only protected harbour on the Coromandel Coast, and the city is the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy.

The city's protected harbour facilitated import and export services for the whole colony, and agriculture, forestry, and fishing provided additional employment.

Active too had suffered severely and as the British squadron was not strong enough to continue the action by attacking the remaining squadron in its protected harbour on Lesina, the battle came to an end.

The coastal topography features many drowned river valleys that form protected harbours.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the French colonies had provided protected harbours for French privateers and warships, which could prey on the numerous British trade routes in the Caribbean and then return to the colonies before British warships could react.

The arrival of a French squadron under Captain Guy-Victor Duperré on 20 August prompted Pym into ordering an inadequately planned attack on the harbour on 23 August and two of his vessels were wrecked on the reefs that protected the harbour entrance.

Police guarded approaches to the port of Cherbourg and naval and coastguard vessels protected the harbour when the Japanese ship Akatsuki Maru arrived in October 1992 to load about 1.5 tons of reactor-grade plutonium from La Hague reprocessing plant.

To a lesser extent it protected the harbour of Kirkcaldy against piracy and English rivalry.

The old tower of St . Lukes protects the harbour in the east, and the harbour entrance is encircled and guarded by the Revelin Fortress.

It protects the harbour of Cebu City.

The paper was easy to protect and harbour.