coaling-station

Garden Key, however, is the key of the gulf, and, as a prospective coaling-station in case of war, it was undoubtedly a spot to be held at all odds, and at the outbreak of the war it formed a convenient spot for the confinement of certain prisoners, as many as three thousand being kept there at one time.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

German regard for tradition makes them a slow and slowly moving race; and that the Emperor as War Lord -- for he is almost solely known to him in that capacity -- must be ever desirous of war, in particular wishes to seize a coaling-station or even a country, in South America, and, generally speaking, set at naught the Monroe doctrine.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

A member of the English House of Commons has asked the Government whether it intends to allow this very important coaling-station to pass out of its reach without protest.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

Mohacz is celebrated for two tremendous battles in the past, and for a fine cathedral, a railway and a coaling-station at present.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

When we stop at the next coaling-station, let us examine the matter more closely.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

A few miles out there is a coaling-station, and at that time they were building the chutes.

Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers John A. Hill

Most decidedly so, for not a single naval harbor or coaling-station, or repairing-dock on the Pacific coast would have been ready to receive Perry or Crane with their badly damaged squadrons.

Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903

Pearl Harbor as a coaling-station and entered American goods free of duty, in return for which Hawaiian sugar and a few other products entered the United States free.

The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

Even if we do act as though Magdalen Bay belonged to us, whereas in reality we have only been permitted to use it as a coaling-station and had no right to erect a wireless station as we did, it is nevertheless inexcusable to use that particular spot for maneuver operations.

Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903

Thursday Isle, an English coaling-station in Torres

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897