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What is a roadstead?

What is a roadstead? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A partly-sheltered anchorage outside a harbour.
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Two days later this same locomotive accidentally toppled over a roadstead at the harbour of Quebec dragging to death the penitent of two days.
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.
Faces 3 and 4 are used for mooring fishing boats and pleasure craft that are in transit or cannot enter the sheltered roadstead.
In the meantime, some visiting boats anchor out in the roadstead and their crews dinghy in to the adjacent, landlocked municipal marina.
Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
The island prospered as thousands of homeward-bound vessels anchored in the roadstead in a year, staying for considerable periods, refitting and revictualling.

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