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A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside

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A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers

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On beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.

The harbour, enclosed within a breakwater, has an area of 24 acres, with 12 to 16 ft.

The harbour is protected by a breakwater nearly 5000 ft.

The tidal harbour, which is owned by a company, is enclosed by two piers and a breakwater, the area being about 30 acres, and the quayage 1400 yds.

A breakwater and sea-wall prevent the blocking of the harbour entrance and encroachments of the sea; and there is another breakwater at Landguard Point on the opposite (Suffolk) shore of the estuary.

A breakwater three-quarters of a mile long protects the entrance to the harbour.

On that side it is sheltered by a huge breakwater, over 2 m.

This remarkable natural breakwater, which is about 50 ft.

The town is irregularly built on the cliffs to the south of Torbay, and its harbour is sheltered by a breakwater.

The breakwater starts opposite the promontory of Ras et-Tin, on which is a lighthouse, 180 ft.

The present outer harbour covers about 300 acres and is formed by two converging jetties and a breakwater.

This breakwater changed an open roadstead into a harbour completely sheltered on the most exposed or south-west side; but there was still liability in certain months to storms from the north-west and south-east.

The herring fishery has developed to considerable proportions, the harbour having been enlarged and protected by piers and a breakwater.

The harbour is safe, being protected by a stony beach and by a breakwater.

A little farther south, on Gowanus Bay, is another basin, the Erie, of 161 acres, protected by a breakwater m.

About a mile and a half east of Lamlash village lies Holy Island, which forms a natural breakwater to the bay.

A breakwater protects its mouth; it has a lighthouse, and is defended by a fort on Signal Hill.

Warrnambool has a fine port with a viaduct and breakwater pier 2400 ft.

To overcome the difficulty of landing from the roadstead a breakwater was built at the mouth of the Baakens River in 1856, but it had to be removed in 1869, as it caused a serious accumulation of sand.

From the foot of the Bluff a breakwater extends over 2000 ft.

The harbour works board, constituted in 1877, improved the river channel and the bar; made wharves and embankments; lighted the lower reaches of the river by electricity, so as to allow vessels to enter by night; and constructed a breakwater and counter-mole outside the bar of the river Nervion, between Santurce, Portugalete and the opposite headland at the village of Algorta, so as to secure deep anchorage and easy access to the river.

A breakwater stretching in a northerly direction from the north-east corner of the island partially enclosed a large area of water naturally sheltered on the south and west.

The opening, in November 1863, of the railway from Cape Town to Wellington, begun in 1859, and the construction in 1860 of the great breakwater in Table Bay, long needed on that perilous coast, marked the beginning in the colony of public works on a large scale.

Its harbour is formed by an artificial breakwater, built parallel with the shore about half a mile distant from it.

Beyond Sunium, on the eastern coast, were two safe ports, that of Thoricus, which is defended by the island of Helene, forming a natural breakwater in front of it, and that of Prasiae, now called Porto Raphti ("the Tailor"), from a statue at the entrance to which the natives have given that name.

The area of the port is 132 acres, and the inner harbour is protected by a stone and concrete breakwater 5950 ft.

The port, formed by a mole and a breakwater, begun in 1880, offers a fair harbour for vessels drawing up to 22 ft.

There are several harbours, including the Porto Canale, for coasting vessels; the Porto Baross, for timber; and the Porto Grande, sheltered by the Maria Theresia mole and breakwater, besides four lesser moles, and flanked by the quays, with their grain-elevators.

In 1902, arrangements were made for the construction of a new mole and an enlargement of the quays and breakwater; these works to be completed within 5 years, at a cost of £420,000.

The east breakwater scheme, which would have covered the Platter's rocks - still very troublesome - and the Skinner's, was abandoned for buoys which mark the spots.

The north breakwater is 7860 ft.

The lighthouse is at the end of the breakwater, of which the whole cost was nearly 12 million sterling.

The harbour works consist of a breakwater 1835 ft.

Opposite the breakwater is a quay 1 475 ft.

Between the extremities of these two piers and those of the breakwater are the two entrances to the harbour.

The town overlooks a wide bay of hard golden sand flanked by spectacular cliffs and protected by a breakwater.

Currently having a new breakwater built for shelter in rough weather.

The discussions, described as at a detailed stage, could see a new terminal being sited behind the proposed breakwater at the pier.

In some locations an offshore breakwater is positioned parallel to the coast to shelter a beach from wave action.

But weather very rough in winter, a new outer breakwater having been destroyed in a storm.

In 1879 the landward end of the new western breakwater or " harbor arm " had been finished.

A long breakwater to the south of Dunoon Pier changes the approach to the pier totally.

Here a series of wind turbines have been installed along the top of the harbor breakwater.

The Cobb, a massive stone breakwater, shelters the ancient harbor which is still lively with boats.

Contractors Edmund Nuttal Ltd, who built the original marina breakwater, have been appointed to carry out the work.

Harbour facilities were developed by the completion of the Government breakwater, 54 m.

This wind has been a constant menace to shipping at anchor; the new breakwater on the Monarch Shoal was designed to resist its ravages.

The plan also included the reclamation of the foreshore at the foot of the cliffs, between the castle jetty and the root of the eastern breakwater, by means of a massive sea-wall.

The completion of the Elmer breakwater and recharge scheme to the west may have resulted in a reduction to this quantity.

It is dominated, on the seaward side, by four hills, and approached by a narrow entrance, with forts on either hand; a breakwater affords shelter on the east, and on the west is the Arsenal Basin, often regarded as the original harbour of the Carthaginians and Romans.

The harbour has an artificial breakwater and extensive modern fortifications (Fort Preble, on the Cape Shore; Fort Levett, on Cushing's Island; Fort Williams, at Portland Head; and Fort McKinley, on Great Diamond Island) among the best equipped in the United States.