Roadstead
in example sentence
James Playfair had left the North Commercial Wharf and gone into the
roadstead
, so that he was ready to make use of the tide, which would be high at nine o’clock in the evening.
More example sentences with word roadstead
They entered the roadstead; but as they drew near in order to cast anchor, a little cutter, looking like a coastguard formidably armed, approached the merchant vessel and dropped into the sea a boat which directed its course to the ladder.
Have you not observed that the captain of your little vessel, on entering the roadstead, sent forward, in order to obtain permission to enter the port, a little boat bearing his logbook and the register of his voyagers?
This tail formed a regular peninsula, which stretched more than thirty miles into the sea, reckoning from the cape southeast of the island, already mentioned; it curled round, making an open roadstead, which marked out the lower shore of this strangely-formed land.
A jetty pier, some two thousand yards along, extended into the
roadstead.
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