"station" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although there were no further political obstacles, funding for the station was not allocated and only a small coaling station was built on the island.
- The USA has also acquired small islands in the Pacific, mostly to be used as coaling stations.
- So once the high ground around here was secured they'd have a coaling station: the reason for starting the war here.
- If a state of war existed, England as a neutral was bound to close her coaling stations to belligerents.
- Haiti was of strategic importance in the Caribbean basin for its shipping lanes and as a naval coaling station.
- The purpose was to establish a mid-ocean coaling station to avoid the high taxes imposed at ports controlled by the Hawaiians.
- Next to the coaling station there were often water cranes and works buildings.
- Until the 1890s armored cruisers were still built with masts for a full sailing rig, to enable them to operate far from friendly coaling stations.
- It was also one of the major coaling stations in the English Channel.
- A fortified coaling station and a more serious force was raised to be stationed upon Thursday Island in 1877.
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