Tortola
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Whistling Cay has a guardhouse that colonial-era officials used to scan waters for slaves escaping from St. John to the nearby island of Tortola.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Unemployed, with a wife and kids to support, Rosbach spotted an ad at the dive shop for a mate to help deliver a boat to Tortola — no experience necessary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
After a career as a consultant for the maritime industry all over the world, Ebers bought his French-made catamaran in Tortola and sailed across the Caribbean to Panama.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
Alcogal provided a registered office for Milrun on the largest of the BVI islands, Tortola, and supplied staff members to act as the company's official directors.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2021
On the 16th we arrived at Tortola, and on the 19th sailed with the fleet under convoy of the La Seine frigate, and landed at Liverpool on the 6th of January, 1806.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Corry, Joseph
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