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  • n  a partly sheltered anchorage

  • Seventy-two ironclads swept past the visiting Dominion Premiers at Spithead, the roadstead off Portsmouth.
  • It was the worst since 1889, when another keening, killing wind sank three American and three German warships in Apia roadstead.
  • Within the shelter of the five-mile-long roadstead, even lightering in supplies would be far easier and faster than in the wide-open Bay of the Seine, or in the tiny fishing .

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