Word: roadstead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
...recent years the Chileans have been dominant in the strip which they have held by force, and feeling is tense as the time for a plebiscite approaches. In the roadstead of the town lay last week...
Seventy-two ironclads swept past the visiting Dominion Premiers at Spithead, the roadstead off Portsmouth. It was the first Royal Naval review to be held since July, 1914. It was also said to have been " the smallest number of naval vessels mustered at a formal British Fleet review...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...