Bashee Channel

Alternative form of Bashi Channel.

Proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Bashi Channel.
    • A strong north-easterly current had been experienced since coming through the Bashee channel, and we were happy to find the ship well to windward on making the land. - 1837 September, S. Wells Williams, “Narrative of a...
    • The position of Swatow at a point opposite the Bashee Channel renders it pecularly exposed to typhoons, the principal range of which is in this narrow seaway. - 1878, Alexander George Findlay, A Directory for the...
    • April and May were spent in the ports of French Indo-China, where Rojdestvensky was given a final reinforcement. Then, on 14 May, he embarked on the final leg of his passage before the inevitable clash with the...