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Two minutes later Modesty brought the motorcycle to a halt between low rock walls where the road debouched on to the harbour approach.

The class was designed to operate in close waters such as harbour approaches, shipping lanes, rivers and estuaries.

Vigilant was transferred to Darwin, Northern Territory in 1941 and was used for protecting the harbour approaches.

To the north-east an imposing bastioned fort "à la Vauban" protected the harbour approaches.

Critically, the British expected, as in the First World War, German submarines would be coastal craft and only threaten harbour approaches.

The Malpeque Harbour Approach Range Lights are a set of range lights on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

The harbour is marked by an extensive network of buoys and lighthouses, starting with Sambro Island Lighthouse at the harbour approaches, the oldest operating lighthouse in North America.

So, we let them come into the harbour approaches, the narrowing river-mouth, where they must bunch and slow to avoid running aground on the sand-bars, then pound them from here while still they cannot reach us effectively.

I reefed, of course, before slipping from our pontoon and sailing out of the shelter of Gala Figuera, but the wind was funnelling down the length of the harbour approaches, and not much shelter to be had in the lee of the islands.

Those profiles on early charts were etchings designed to aid mariners in identifying their landfall and harbor approaches.

As part of its so-called safe harbor approach, the S.E.C. is expected to soon require companies to make public such prearranged trading plans.

But see Google Reply at 2 (disagreeing with the safe harbor approach, and arguing that web standards and consumer requirements are evolving rapidly).

Pat Adamson, a spokesman for Acomarit, the ship's managers, said that the ship was anchored in the harbor approach and that a maximum of three tanks had been holed.

The Fort Ripley Shoal Light (or Middle Ground Light) was a lighthouse in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor approaches.

As the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor approaches and books on World War II dominate best-seller lists, interest is also growing in posters, songs and other memorabilia from that era.

We note that some commenters propose a variation on the safe harbor approach, under which the Commission would deem compliant the use of a standard adopted in an open process by a recognized industry standard-setting organization, without specifying the format.

"517 Further, unlike adopting SMPTE-TT as the mandatory interchange or delivery format, commenters explain that a safe harbor approach would balance goals of efficiency, certainty, and consumer access with needed flexibility to continue to innovate.518 126.

On 27 March, the 1st Squadron began a week of night missions sowing aerial anti-shipping mines of Japanese harbor approaches and Inland Sea ship passages, a mission they would again conduct during the entire second half of May.

Specialist British troops have been waiting since Saturday to begin preparing the port of Umm Qasr for huge aid shipments, but Mr. Blair explained that the necessary removal of mines from the harbor approaches was delaying the operation.

The flexibility in such a safe harbor approach will address many of the concerns expressed by parties against the adoption of a particular standard, because the parties will retain the option of using an alternative standard if that standard better meets their needs and achieves the required result.

These larger vessels, designated U.S. Army Mine Planter (USAMP), were supported by a variety of smaller craft to compose a submarine mine flotilla in planting and maintaining the mine fields associated with harbor approaches and coastal fortifications of the United States.