A roadstead can be an area of safeanchorage for ships waiting to enter a port, or to form a convoy. If sufficiently sheltered and convenient, it can be used for thetransshipment of goods, stores, and troops, either separately or in combination. The same applies in transfers to and from shore bylighters orbarges.[3][b]
In thedays of sailing ships, some voyages could only easily be made with certain wind directions, and ships would wait for favorable winds on a roadstead such asthe Downs near the English Channel, orYarmouth Roads by the North Sea.
^Charts and nautical publications often useroads rather thanroadsteads.[1]Roads is the earlier term.[2]
^ For example, in the Second World War, many merchant ships and many troops arriving at the UK were unloaded/disembarked from ships anchored at theTail of the Bank in the upper Clyde estuary.[7]
^Walker, George K.Definitions for the Law of the Sea: Terms Not Defined by the 1982 Convention. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.
^Little, William; Fowler, H W; Coulson, Jesse; Onions, C T; Friedrichsen, G. W. S. (1983).The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Volume II) (3rd ed.). London: Book Club Associates. p. 1838.
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