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shore station

n. military installation servicing naval forces [syn: naval installation]

Usage examples of "shore station".

In North Korea, a shore station reported the contact to higher command.

He is repositioning his orbit fifty kilometers further north to compensate for the loss of the shore station.

They were further informed that it behooved them to return immediately and directly to their ship or shore station.

By the time he makes chief and senior chief, he'll be looking at command of a larger vessel or of a shore station.

Ashore, the OOD may be responsible for a shore station after normal working hours.

In other words, the shore station in Hong Kong had lost contact with the equipment on board Porter's cable ship.

There was a chance that the shore station had been unable to reach the Tarpon because of poor atmospheric conditions.

You will be taken to a shore station, and there will meet with more of our representatives.

I switched over to the next waveband and almost immediately picked up music from a shore station.

He contacted a navy shore station, and was, in turn, put through to an admiral.