There are two anchorages at Varna roadstead&colon; summer and winter. Nowadays the roadstead is more like to be referred to as an anchorage. The ships were anchored in a roadstead off the coast of Marsaxlokk. Instead, they anchored in the Schillig roadstead. Chemulpo Roadstead, February 8. 1904. Several ships were nevertheless torpedoed by German submarines in the Roadstead. Drake's activities demonstrated the indefensibility of the open roadstead of Nombre de Dios. Its importance was as a defence not only of the island, but of the roadstead. There, President Roosevelt reviewed the fleet as it passed into the roadstead. At 05&colon;00 on 23 April 1918, the German fleet departed from the Schillig roadstead. Within five minutes Finucane was ordered to take-off on a "Roadstead" operation. She spent three weeks in the roadstead, exercising her guns, before moving to Spithead.