roadstead

In the roadstead the same ships as the day before.

"There are three suspicious ships in the roadstead," he said at once.

About five it returned, gentle enough, enabling us to head for the roadstead.

Or toward the beach or the ships in the roadstead?

The gleaming white yacht lay half a mile out in the roadstead.

The boat had evidently been lowered from one of the ships in the roadstead.

The roadstead is well protected by reefs and the configuration of the land.

A roadstead is a place outside a harbor where a ship can lie at anchor.

It was like a roadstead crowded with tan, fairy shipping.

A jetty pier, some two thousand yards along, extended into the roadstead.

Engineers are at work, now, turning the open roadstead into a spacious artificial harbor.

There President Roosevelt reviewed the fleet as it passed into the roadstead.

Meanwhile, her three sisters stood out in the roadstead in defensive positions.

The remainder of the flotilla lay offshore, anchoring in the open roadstead.

Since 2007 she has been anchored in the roadstead of Brest awaiting scrapping.

The ships steamed out of the roadstead at midnight on the night of 6-7 April.

Not a single ship in the roadstead.

They were farther out, over the garbage of some ice-bound freighters in the roadstead.

We anchored in the open roadstead of Horta, half a mile from the shore.

Its roadstead is full of ships.

Therefore she went into that natural harbor to wait for a few days in preference to remaining in an open roadstead.

There are two anchorages at Varna roadstead: summer and winter.

The aim was to permit these two batteries, only just over 2 km apart, to bar entry to the roadstead.

She spent three weeks in the roadstead, exercising her guns, before moving to Spithead.

Black dots as far as the ice-bound steamers in the roadstead.