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What is a roadstead?

What is a roadstead? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (nautical) A partly-sheltered anchorage outside a harbour.
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Faces 3 and 4 are used for mooring fishing boats and pleasure craft that are in transit or cannot enter the sheltered roadstead.
This small picturesque fisher's port is situated on the French Riviera's largest roadstead.
In the meantime, some visiting boats anchor out in the roadstead and their crews dinghy in to the adjacent, landlocked municipal marina.
The expansionist policy of Bonaparte highlighted again the particular strategic rĂ´le of Taranto's port and roadstead.
The port area is relatively shallow, and tenders serve larger ships at a roadstead in Poverty Bay.
A lighted torch like the one brandished by the Statue of Liberty in the roadstead of New York is sculpted on each of the boundary stones.

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