roadstead

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The great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certainly the British would not mine roadsteads used by their own ships.

From Time Magazine Archive

And these inadequate roadsteads were connected with the front by just one single-track railroad, by just one good road.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are of very peculiar construction, being designed to enable the occupants to venture out, however rough the water may chance to be, and the surf is always raging in these open roadsteads.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

It was no less than Lord Claymore’s long-projected plan of destroying the French fleet whenever it could be found collected in one of these exposed roadsteads.

From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.