Translation for "lightships" to spanish
Lightships
noun
Translation examples
The largest there came from a lightship.
Esa grande de ahí era de un buque faro.
Call me to the bridge if you see the lightship before then.
Si ve el buque faro antes de eso, llámeme.
Fog was forecast for the area hear the Nantucket lightship.
Se esperaba bruma cerca del buque faro de Nantucket.
At Hampton Roads, Virginia, a squadron of destroyers passed the lightship, then sped south.
En Hampton Roads (Virginia) una escuadrilla de destructores dejó el buque faro atrás, y luego aceleró en dirección sur.
With the lightship behind them, the Doria's captain ordered a course due west to New York
Tras dejar atrás el buque faro, el capitán del Doria puso rumbo oeste, dirección Nueva York.
The Stockholm was now forty miles west of the lightship, close enough to pick up its radio beacon.
El Stockholm se hallaba ahora cuarenta millas al oeste del buque faro, lo bastante cerca para captar la radio.
The new line would take them about five miles from the lightship. Nillson figured strong northerly currents would push the ship as dose as two miles.
La nueva línea les mantendría a cinco millas del buque faro, pero Nillson dedujo que las fuertes corrientes del norte reducirían esa distancia a dos millas.
When the Doria had rolled by the lightship at tentwenty PM., the bridge could pick the vessel up on radar and hear the lonely moan of its foghorn, but it was invisible at less than a mile away..
A las diez y veinte de la noche, cuando el Doria pasó junto al buque faro, el puente captó la nave en el radar y escuchó el gemido de la sirena, pero era imposible ver nada incluso a menos de una milla de distancia.
His four-hour watch was essentially a series of routine tasks aimed at keeping the ship on an imaginary line that would bring it to an imaginary point near the stubby red lightship that guarded Nantucket's treacherous shoals.
Sus cuatro horas de guardia se componían, básicamente, de tareas rutinarias destinadas a mantener el barco en una línea imaginaria que había de llevarles hasta un punto imaginario próximo al buque faro que delimitaba los traidores bajíos de Nantucket.
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