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Example sentences for "naval station"

  • It was occupied as a naval station in the Illyrian war of 178 B.

  • Some preliminary surveys have been made by the United States government with a view to establishing a naval station on the island Kiska, in the western part of the Aleutian Chain.

  • It was opened in 1899 and is a naval station, being free from ice all the year round.

  • It was afterwards destroyed, and is no longer a naval station.

  • The American government, however, contented itself with a naval station at Pago Pago, Tutuila, and the exercise of a mild protectorate over the natives of the rest of that island.

  • The establishment of a naval station at Pago Pago has placed the United States, strategically, in the strongest position in western Polynesia.

  • As the United States holds only a naval station at Pago Pago, Samoa, and Germany is now out of the Pacific altogether, missionaries of American and Teutonic extraction are a negligible quantity.

  • I strongly recommend that provision be made for improving the harbor of Pearl River and equipping it as a naval station.

  • The discovery of a new channel into the harbor of New York, through which our largest ships may pass without danger, must afford important commercial advantages to that harbor and add greatly to its value as a naval station.

  • We have also a naval station, with headquarters at Jamaica, but certainly that forms no part of a colonial appendage.

  • And we have a naval station in India, the expense of which, so far as required for that great colonial empire, is, we believe, borne entirely by India herself.

  • We have a naval station at Halifax chargeable colonially.

  • At San Luis connection is made with the Guantanamo & Western Railway, where passengers for the United States Naval Station on Guantanamo Bay, and the rich sugar districts lying north and west of the harbor, are transferred.

  • It was selected from all the ports of Cuba by Captain Lucien Young in 1901 as the best site for a naval station in the West Indies for the United States Navy.

  • Seward, the assistant secretary of state, were sent to Santo Domingo for the purpose of securing the lease of Samana bay as a naval station.

  • It would answer admirably for a naval station; and if the United States were a second-rate power likely to be bullied by other nations, we might need a naval station in the Pacific Ocean.

  • They came up to him almost at the same time and asked him if he was inclined to give them his views concerning the practicability and value of constructing a naval station north of Wissow Hook.

  • Just as you have shown the futility of a naval station here!

  • Formerly it was nothing but a naval station of the Cumæi.


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