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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:A Chart of Mouths of Hoogly River and of the Roads of Balasore and Piply Material cartográfico From Point Palmiras to Lacam s Channel with t.jpg|thumb|British chart of Balasore Roads, 1794.]]<br />
'''Balasore Roads''' is a [[roadstead]] (a sheltered anchorage), on the [[India]]n coast near [[Balasore]]. It was the location of the [[List of vessels of the Bengal Pilot Service to 1834|Bengal Pilot Service]] pilot boarding station (see chart). It was considered to be a generally safe anchorage, with depths varying from 5 to 15 fathoms, and with the sea bottom consisting of mud and sand.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, Etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sundas and Western Australia; including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; the Winds, Monsoons, and Currents, and the Passages from Europe to its Various Ports|last=Findlay|first=Alexander George|publisher=Richard Holmes Laurie|year=1866|pages=874–875}}</ref><br />
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The entrance to the [[Hooghly River]] was considered to be the most difficult of any river in India,<ref>{{Cite book|title=A New Nautical Directory for the East-India and China Navigation (7th Ed.)|editor-last=Wright|editor-first=Gabriel |publisher=S. Couchman, London|year=1804|pages=166}}</ref> and the [[river pilot]] station was located near the mouth of the river.<br />
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During the [[French Revolutionary Wars|French Revolutionary]] and [[Napoleonic Wars]] French privateer captains such as [[Jean-François Hodoul]] and [[Robert Surcouf]] would cruise the mouth of the Hooghly River hoping to capture vessels anchored in the Roads, or proceeding to or from [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]. The French captured both pilot vessels such as {{ship||Cartier|1787 ship|2}}, and large [[East Indiamen]] such as {{ship||Triton|1787 EIC ship|2}}.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[wikt:Special:Search/roadstead|roadstead]] in [[wikt:|wiktionary]]<br />
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