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    A roadstead or road is a body of water sheltered from rip currents, spring tides, or ocean swell where ships can lie reasonably safely at anchor without...
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    The roadstead of Brest (French: rade de Brest, French pronunciation: [ʁad də bʁɛst]; Breton: Lenn-vor Brest) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère...
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    The Downs is a roadstead (area of sheltered, favourable sea) in the southern North Sea near the English Channel off the east Kent coast, between the North...
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    The roadstead of Lorient (French: Rade de Lorient, Breton: Lenn-von an Oriant) is a roadstead located to the west of Morbihan in Brittany, France. The...
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    of the bay. Tallinn Bay itself is divided into several parts: Tallinn Roadstead (Estonian: Tallinna reid), Kopli Bay, Kakumäe Bay and Paljassaare Bay...
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    Force de dissuasion (deterrence force). Their home port is Île Longue, Roadstead of Brest, Western Brittany. The first three boats were originally armed...
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    The Rede van Texel, formerly Reede van Texel, was a roadstead off the Dutch island of Texel. It was of considerable importance to Dutch long-distance...
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    1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, the collected fleet sailed from the roadstead to the Battle of Copenhagen. From 1808 to 1814, the Admiralty in London...
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    del Toro, near the Beaches of Costa Rica, provide an extensive natural roadstead and shield the banana port of Almirante. The more than 350 San Blas Islands...
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    Washington state, United States Rías Altas and Rías Baixas in Galicia, Spain Roadstead of Brest in Brittany, France San Francisco Bay in California, United States...
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    US literary) a small or very small stream. Victorian era publications. Roadstead a place outside a harbor where a ship can lie at anchor; it is an enclosed...
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    collection of German fortifications with a number of museums. The use of the roadstead in front of St Peter Port by over 100 cruise ships a year is bringing...
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    weapon-submarine (deterrence) base at Île Longue in the Rade de Brest (Brest roadstead). This continues to be an important base for the French nuclear-armed...
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    Petit Minou Lighthouse (Phare du Petit Minou) is a lighthouse in the roadstead of Brest, standing in front of the Fort du Petit Minou, in the commune...
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    Spithead (category Roadsteads of the United Kingdom)
    13667°W / 50.75140; -1.13667 Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds...
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    (guard cutter (СКА)) coastal minesweeper (base minesweeper (БТ)) minesweeping boat (roadstead minesweeper (РТ)) landing craft (landing cutter (ДКА))...
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    on board, previously quarantined at Nagasaki, Japan, anchored at the roadstead of Vladivostok, Russia, to refresh the ship with water, fuel, and food...
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    of September 22, Connemara IV was lying to a heavy mooring in the open roadstead of Carlisle Bay. Because of the approaching hurricane, the owner strengthened...
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    Martín with the English in pursuit, thinking that if he anchored in the roadstead of Calais they would not dare molest the Spanish ships in French waters...
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    48.472649°N 4.749602°W / 48.472649; -4.749602 (Aber Ildut)) etc. The Roadstead of Brest also includes several rias. Ireland: Bantry Bay, on the southwest...
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  • offshore lighthouse. ro-ro See roll-on/roll-off ship. roads See roadstead. roadstead A sheltered area outside a harbour where a ship can lie safe at anchor...
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    frigate bought by Russia and built in Rotterdam stood in the Amsterdam roadstead under the white-blue-red flag. In 1696, at the mouth of the river Don...
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    battle was fought over two days, March 8 and 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers meet the James River...
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    buses or coaches on roads. The term was also commonly used to refer to roadsteads, waterways that lent themselves to use by shipping. According to the New...
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    Finistère, Brittany, France, which spans the Élorn river where it enters the roadstead of Brest. It carries route nationale 165, the road between Brest and Quimper...
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    Brazil. The two ships finally reached Saint Helena on 8 October and in the roadstead found the French brig Oreste, commanded by Doret, who had been one of...
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    PK 0 Châteaulin PK 29 Landévennec. PK 32.5 Mouth of Aulne River PK 51 Roadstead of Brest Brest Harbor, Brest Bay List of canals in France Association...
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    watercraft, and consist of components such as piers, wharfs, docks and roadsteads. Transport portal Electric ship European Union shipping law Glossary of...
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    ship, with only Langsdorff and 40 other men aboard, moved into the outer roadstead to be scuttled. A crowd of 20,000 watched as the scuttling charges were...
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    ships loaded the troops in Cuxhaven. The ships steamed to the Schillig roadstead outside Wilhelmshaven, where they joined Group 1, consisting of ten destroyers...
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