| 单词 | coaling station |
| 例句 | In the late 1800s the fort was refurbished as a coaling station for the US Navy, and it was from here that the USS Maine made its fateful journey to Havana in January 1898. West of Key West, an Under-the-Radar National Park 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The Midway Islands provided a more stable path to Asian markets and a vital naval coaling station, which steamships needed in order to travel further afield. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 1870, it had been at the desolate Midway Island helping to deepen the harbor channel for possible use as a coaling station, according to an account by the ship’s paymaster, George H. Read. Giant anchors, wrecked boats and a ‘Liberty’ clock: Inside the storage site for Navy museum 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It is run by a military joint task force that is considered a tenant on the Navy base, which the United States opened in 1903 as a coaling station. U.S. faces construction quandary at aging Guantanamo camp 2013-02-03T13:02:51Z I would hate to be called a coaling station if I were Port Said, even by me. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z I strongly advised that we take as little as possible—nothing more than a naval and coaling station; otherwise to appropriate the Philippines would in the long run entail endless obligations without commensurate benefits. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z The Platt Amendment also guaranteed the United States its own naval and coaling station on the island’s southern Guantanamo Bay and prohibited Cuba from making treaties with other countries that might eventually threaten their independence. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Messageries Maritimes Company use the port as a coaling station and provisioning depot for their South American trade. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Spain offers to Germany full and entire liberty of commerce, of navigation, and of fishery within the islands, as also the right of establishing a naval and a coaling station. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Port Said may have been a sink of iniquity when Mr. Kipling was last there, but when I visited it it was a coaling station. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z As a coaling station I am sure of its success and popularity, for the coal carriers who comprise most of the natives, have apparently no time to wash between steamers. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z St. Thomas is, as we have said, a coaling station for steamships, and when the business is in progress a most unique picture is presented. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z According to the story, the present trouble has arisen because of Mexico's refusal to allow the United States to use Magdalena Bay as a coaling station. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z They were a coaling station for the navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. Iraq: With Sadr In, Is the U.S. Out? 2011-01-06T17:20:00Z Algiers is now an important coaling station The city possesses widely-extended suburbs. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide This is an important military and coaling station, which perhaps explains much. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z It is also the regular coaling station of several steamship lines. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z We landed at Aden, a British port and important coaling station, at 11:00 a. m., My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 The threatened Darien canal has awakened us to a sense that we require a fortified coaling station in those quarters. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Acapul′co, a seaport of Mexico, on the Pacific, with a capacious, well-sheltered harbour; a coaling station for steamers, but with no great trade. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Two days out she passed the beautiful Island of Formosa, and in three days more the vessel came in sight of Nagasaki, the leading coaling station of the Flowery Kingdom. The Utah Batteries: A History A complete account of the muster-in, sea voyage, battles, skirmishes and barrack life of the Utah batteries, together with biographies of officers and muster-out rolls. In fact, Coronal, not far away, is the great coaling station on the Chilian coast for steamships bound to Europe or Panama. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The islands are regularly visited by vessels of the Messageries Maritimes fleet, and a coaling station for the French navy has been established. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" This is to be the future coaling station. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses In the Spanish-American War of 1898 some coaling was thus accomplished; but Guantanamo Bay served the purpose of a coaling station during the operations against Santiago. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" They probably have the idea that we're looking up a suitable coaling station for the Government, or something of that kind. Doubloons—and the Girl We do not mean to convey the idea that this is a regular coaling station, though it may some time become so. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z They didn't seem to belong to no country in partikler, and though I knowed Britain claimed the Bahamas, I jes' kind a thought Teddy might want the place for a coaling station some time. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories It turns out it’s a coaling station of the Pacific Mail,” he said simply. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) As the term “coaling station” refers only to a naval need which can often be satisfied without a visit to any port, it appears less suitable to modern conditions than “secondary base.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" St. Vincent, the only island of the Cape de Verdes which has any trade, is a coaling station much used by steamers on the South American route. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Ryder, then Commander-in-Chief on the China station, had a conversation respecting, in view of the aggressive policy of Russia in the Far East, obtaining a British coaling station much further north than Hong Kong. The Empire of the East As we left Nagasaki for Shanghai, I noticed on this occasion, as on four later visits, the great activity of this port as a coaling station. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China It is the headquarters of the pearl fishing industry and an Imperial coaling station for the Navy, protected by forts manned by Australian artillery. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon "Could the Mighty One at Berlin condone the offense if China gave Germany a harbor to be used as coaling station and naval headquarters?" East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan As a coaling station it is in a better position, being approximately equidistant between the Cape and Sierra Leone, and less exposed to rollers, which frequently interrupt the coaling of ships at Ascension. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' His request was promptly vetoed, and Great Britain, accordingly, lost for ever the opportunity of obtaining an admirable coaling station and a splendid strategical position in the Far East. The Empire of the East Obliged to leave British, he would soon be debarred from Chinese, waters; he was nearly 8,000 miles from a home-port, and Honolulu, his nearest coaling station, was 6,000 miles away. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History A good home should be a good coaling station; remember that.” How to Cook Husbands The Monroe Doctrine, excluding his empire from even a coaling station in this hemisphere, is to the Kaiser a perpetual nightmare. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The expenditure recently authorised, amounting to some 10,000l., appears fully justified in view of the importance of St. Helena as a coaling station for the Cape route to the East. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Suppose the Adexe coaling station was intended to be something of the nature of a naval base? Brandon of the Engineers It is true they afford us a coaling station in the middle of the Pacific, but that is all. Fifty Years of Public Service I determined to personate a transport bound to Beaufort, which was in the possession of the United States forces, and the coaling station of the fleet blockading Wilmington. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner "And now I can tell you the name of the coaling station and of the protectorate that came afterward," he said. A Son Of The Sun Sierra Leone is an important coaling station, halfway between England and the Cape. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' We cannot, for example, have it claimed that we allowed a foreign power to buy a coaling station and use it as a base for raids on merchant ships.” Brandon of the Engineers Here also are an inner harbour, 1640 ft. long and 656 ft. wide, a coaling station, and a small harbour for the tugs and other vessels belonging to the canal company. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" At King George's Sound, Northern Australia, was a small coaling station, possessing only a score or so of houses or stores, and one hotel so-called. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 Yet when England and France began furbishing up colonial stations in the Caribbean, Japan forthwith made offers for a site for a coaling station in the Gulf of Mexico. The Canadian Commonwealth Now I will tell you about some of this hard work, and something about two men who made it possible to land the marines and establish a coaling station in Guantanamo Bay. Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain He heard nothing then, for Jake took the hint and began to talk about the coaling station, but when the lad stopped there was another rustle, very faint but nearer. Brandon of the Engineers Will the great commercial traveller, William II be able to persuade his sweet friend the Slayer, to make him a grant of the coaling station which he covets at Haïfa? The Schemes of the Kaiser Aden is a coaling station as well as a missionary centre and passengers travelling to the Orient nearly always stop here on the way. Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children Its terminus and the British coaling station would be on the west coast of the island…. The Inheritors Let Germany acquire a coaling station, a sanitorium, a health resort, the ground for a hotel even, on some foreign shore, and "British interests" spring to attention, English jealousy is aroused. The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 On our left was a long strip of land—the depot and coaling station of the Vanderbilt Steamship Company. In the Footprints of the Padres The United States government now uses it as a coaling station. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 1521-1569 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century It gives a coaling station for his fleet on the shore of your life. Quiet Talks on Prayer Others yet again represent them as incessantly on the watch to seize a harbour here or there as a coaling station for warships and a basis of attack. William of Germany However, the fortunes of war are such that the island is likely to become ours permanently as a coaling station in the Pacific. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Victoria, in Mahé, is the chief town, and an imperial coaling station. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The demand of America is, annexation of Porto Rico and the Ladrone Islands, independence of Cuba under an American protectorate and an American coaling station in the Philippines. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) Its importance as a port of call for steamers and a coaling station has grown immensely since the opening of the Suez Canal. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Her coaling station in Cuba, the possession of Porto Rico and the protection of the isthmus made it a matter of national safety to preserve stable governments in Central America and the West Indies. The United States Since the Civil War The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred per cent and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station. The King in Yellow Barbara had no doubt noted the island lay conveniently near the African coast, and knew it was an important coaling station, at which steamers bound South from Liverpool called. Lister's Great Adventure Those plans of the coaling station are a fake—a fake. The Poisoned Pen The United States drifted into more intimate relationship with the natives until in 1878 it made a treaty with the Samoan king allowing Americans to use Pago Pago as a coaling station. The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power Those plans of the coaling station are a fake - a fake. The Poisoned Pen Here, free from all danger of an ice blockade, this port will become a safe and convenient harbor and coaling station during the winter time for government and other vessels. Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 This afternoon the false coaling station plans are to be turned over to our accomplice in the War Department and in exchange he is to give us something else - the secret of which I spoke. The Poisoned Pen This afternoon the false coaling station plans are to be turned over to our accomplice in the War Department and in exchange he is to give us something else—the secret of which I spoke. The Poisoned Pen |
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