Sentence examples for roadstead from inspiring English sources

Jijel, formerly Djidjelli, town and roadstead port, northeastern Algeria, on the Mediterranean seacoast and the western edge of the Collo Kabylie region.

Larnaca's port accommodates small craft at dockside; larger ships anchor in the roadstead and are served by lighters (barges) or use two floating pontoons completed in 1977.

The old port at the city site was an open roadstead; ships had to unload their cargoes into small dhows and lighters.

The port area is relatively shallow, and tenders serve larger ships at a roadstead in Poverty Bay.

Since the deepwater roadstead harbour was Frederiksted's only natural resource capable of reversing the trend, major improvements to the pier were initiated in the late 1970s, and tourist facilities were developed.

Because it has the only safe natural roadstead on the north coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia), Sinope was in antiquity the foremost port on the coast, with its land approaches barred by a huge citadel (now in ruins) and its sea side defended by a strong wall.

In 1941 it replaced Bolama as the capital and has since developed on a northwest-southeast axis by the Gêba Channel, which offers an excellent roadstead for the largest vessels; a wharf and pier have replaced the former outdated lighterage system.

It has a sheltered roadstead and is backed by the steep cliffs of a wide ravine.

The open roadsteads of Nagappattinam and Karikal are on the seaward side of the delta.

In 1905 the two roadsteads sheltered the fleet of the Russian admiral Z.P. Rozhestvensky en route to the naval battle of Tsushima.

Unlike his friend Melville, who did go venturing over the seas, Hawthorne was often stuck on its anxious verge; though the explorations he would undertake would be the perilous roadsteads of the human psyche.