How To Use coaling station In A Sentence
- In April 1899, a coaling station was built in Pago Pago harbor by the U. S. Navy, and in February 1900, a deed of cession was negotiated with Tutuila chiefs by Naval Commander B.F. Tilley.
- And now I can tell you the name of the coaling station and of the protectorate that came afterward," he said. THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
- Likewise coal is often listed as a cargo as ships tried to deliver it to coaling stations all over the empire.
- The United States wanted Japan to provide coaling stations for American ships in the new age of steamships.
- It has been variously a careening (hull-cleaning) bay, a pirate haven, a Danish freeport, slave-market, a gun-running centre, steamship coaling station, US Naval Base and latterly a major cruise ship port.
