roadstead

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Two light cruisers and the USS Utah lay off its starboard bow, and Battleship Row, the famed but vulnerable roadstead for the Navy’s mightiest, was on the other side of Ford Island.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024

Container ships and oil tankers, waiting for a berth, are assigned a place to anchor in the roadstead off Long Beach and Huntington Harbor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2021

While he fumed on the Greek cruiser Helle, with Greek destroyers wobbling wildly in the roadstead, an even less welcome omen arrived by cable from Greece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the roadstead leading out to sea parachute mines floated down to block the entrance.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oarsmen were coming aboard now, for the ship was to go out into the roadstead before night fell, and sail with the ebbtide near dawn.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin