Sandwich had proximity to a shallow harbor, was a possible canal site, and had local supplies of timber to fuel the glass furnaces.

This was a shallow harbor facing toward the mainland, evidently limited to local shuttling.

Much work had been done to develop its naturally shallow harbor.

By then the limitations of Lillehammer's location had also become apparent, in particular those of its shallow harbor.

There was a shallow harbor there, with a very old town, and parts of another town only half as old.

But the combination of a shallow harbor and a falling tide caused the Merchant to run aground.

A center of commerce, but a shallow harbor.

Largely cut off from the mainland, the shallow harbor afforded the earliest settlers docking of their ships.

The Salé fleet totaled about eighteen ships, all small because of the very shallow harbor entrance.

Their shallow drafts gave them access to shallow harbors and estuaries.