seadrome

[ see-drohm ]

noun

, Aeronautics.

1. a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seadrome¹

First recorded in 1920–25; sea + -drome

Example Sentences

Her crew of 40 is divided between two skippers, one commanding the Westphalen as a ship, the other as a seadrome.

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Air Force planes�soon to be increased to 1,200�and a Navy seadrome at Cam Ranh Bay.

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Seadrome Light-up Last week a demanding customer, the U.S.

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They have provided him one and three quarters million dollars to build his first seadrome.

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From famed Naval Architect Henry J. Gielow came designs of the Armstrong Seadrome, a floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic.

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