The islands are valuable in German eyes, not only for their fertility and capacity for plantation development, but as affording good harbourage and coaling stations on the sea-road to China, Japan, and Central America.
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.
We took in all the wood we could get and started to make the port of Acapulco, the regular coaling port for all the steamers on that coast.
We shall be used for scouting--coaling all day and steaming all night.
The people of Durban have not only an eye for beauty but they are very up to date and have a coaling apparatus that holds the world's record for speed in the coaling of ships.
About half of them started to work, for the method of coaling in these parts is for the niggers to carry aboard about a teaspoonful in a wicker basket.
This and the negotiations which I shall mention later, dealing with the coaling of our ships of war and the American export of arms and ammunition, I discussed with Secretary of State Bryan.
The negotiations which I had to carry out on this question of the munitions traffic concerned themselves also with the question of the coaling of our ships of war.
There is a town of about eight hundred inhabitants called St. Louis, where the Governor lives, and a coaling station is maintained for the benefit of English men-of-war.
The weather was indifferent; but contrary to expectation, the coaling was fairly successful.
This was done, in spite of the difficulties of coaling without bases and of having to repair damages in the open sea.
Apparently, when the Oslyabya was at Tangier, she asked for a barge and baskets for coaling from Gibraltar.
They have long ago begun coaling in the other ships, and will soon begin in us.
General coaling has been going on from early this morning.
During the last coaling a steam-cutter from the Sissoi was sunk.
To-morrow we coal--probably the last coaling at sea.
In addition to this they were coaling at the same time.
After coaling is finished, a fleet of rowing boats with dragnets collect the ill-gotten coal from the bottom of the sea.
It is true that in case of war, her armed steamers may start with the assurance of a secure coaling station at the end of every ten days' journey, but from the Cape eastward she is dependent upon her maintenance of Mauritius.
In time of war, we shall have these neutral ports as a refuge, and should diplomacy go one step farther and secure us a coaling station, we shall be on equal terms in the East with the other great maritime powers.
Won't allow us to acquire coaling stations in any part of the world.
We got the coaling station in the Red Sea through our pro-Boer sympathies.
A drive leading from the city of Guanajay extends fifty miles northwest to the Bay of Bahia Honda, chosen originally as a coaling station for the Navy, but never occupied.
This bay was originally chosen as the north shore coaling station for the United States Government in Cuba, but afterwards was abandoned as unnecessary.
Bahia Honda was selected by the United States Government in 1902, as a coaling station, a large body of land on the western shore being reserved for that purpose.
Cuba, in consideration of the waiving of all American claims on the Isle of Pines, agreed to cede to the United States coalingstations at Bahia Honda and Guantanamo.
Consul said Japan desired coaling station, freedom to trade and build railways.
To find the garrisons for all our fortresses and coaling stations, at home and abroad, according to a scale now laid down, and to maintain these garrisons at all times at the strength fixed for a peace or war footing.
The timing of the departures and arrivals, so as to regulate the pressure on intermediate coaling stations and terminal ports, also seems to have been satisfactory.
When our commissioners met at Paris to draft the Treaty of Peace, one wished our demands in the Orient confined to Manila, with a few harbors and coaling stations.
A coaling station is to be established there, which will be convenient and useful to United States vessels.
On the outbreak of the war, Australia and New Zealand promptly organized expeditionary forces which attacked and captured the German colonies and coaling stations situated south of the Equator.
It was galling to German pride to have to coal her ships at English coaling stations.
In the absence of German coaling stations, the only way such vessels could obtain coal during a long raiding voyage, would be by the chance capture of coal-laden vessels.
Other reasons why Germany wanted colonies were that she might obtain more food, and that she might establish coaling stations for her navy, so that it could protect her commerce, especially her food-carrying ships.
The coaling and other preparations were made in such excellent shape by the Department that there was never a hitch, not so much as the delay of an hour, in keeping every appointment made.
It gives a coaling station for his fleet on the shore of your life.
The British Government offered the hospitality of Kingston Harbour, withcoaling facilities, for an unlimited period to the French Cruiser Squadron, then in the West Indies.
The empty baskets were passed back into the coaling barge by a line of younger girls at another port-hole, being refilled by a third gang in the boat.
The decks were seatless, and smeared with sand, and everything in a pitiable condition from the coaling operations.
Coaling operations, added to the disorganization always attendant on a ship in port, gave us rather an uncomfortable evening.
French coaling stations, with their red-tiled roofs, look picturesque, as do the settlement of huts built on stakes into the water, and the houses nestling amongst the palms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coaling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
