What is the difference between an anchorage and a marina and a harbor?

Question

What is the difference between an anchorage and a marina and a harbor?

Answer 1

harbour like an airport contains numerous places like a terminal and shops.

Anchorage is like an airstrip, just a pier to 'anchor' your boat

Answer 2

Anchorage may mean:

Anchorage, Alaska, the largest and most well known city in Alaska, United States

Anchorage, Kentucky, an outer suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, United States

"Anchorage" (song) - a 1988 song by Michelle Shocked

Anchorage, Islamabad, a housing scheme in Islamabad, Pakistan

Anchorage may also refer to:

Anchorage, a place where a ship lies at anchor

An anchor is a heavy object, often made out of metal, that is used to attach a ship to the bottom of a body of water at a specific point. There are two primary classes of anchors—temporary and permanent. A permanent anchor is often called a mooring, and is rarely moved; it is quite possible the vessel cannot hoist it aboard but must hire a service to move or maintain it. A temporary anchor is usually carried by the vessel, and hoisted aboard whenever the vessel is under way; it is what most non-sailors mean when they refer to an anchor. A sea anchor is a related device used when the water depth makes using a mooring or temporary anchor impractical. The hole through which an anchor rope passes is known as a hawsepipe.

A marina is a port within a sheltered harbour where boats and yachts are kept in the water and where services geared to the needs of recreational boating are found.

A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences), or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural. A man-made harbor will have sea walls or breakwaters and may require dredging. A natural harbor is surrounded on most sides by land.

Harbors and ports are often confused. A port is a man-made coastal or riverine facility where boats and ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a transport system, such as railway, road transport or pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.

Answer 3

Anchorage is where a ship can drop anchor alot of times a large ship like a cruise ship or a carrier will not be able to go into a port. There anchorage can be a spot about 1/2 mile out and the smaller "liberty" ships will ferry people in.

Marina is refers to the area where there docks are both the land portion and the portion on the water.

Harbor is a geographical dignation it is basically any large indentation in the cost

Answer 4

Anchorage is where a vessel or boat can safely drop their anchor in water deep enough to safely float them and shallow enough for the anchor to be laid out and touch the bottom and hold fast.

Marina's are places of business that are located with piers, drydocks, moorage and other marine related items.  Normally inside of some kind of Harbor

Harbors are either natural places with protected reefs, islands, beaches or other pieces of land blocking wave action from the open water.  They are also man made by stacking bolders, sinking old ships, concrete and a host of other materials to protect boats from the waves induced by bad weather.  Anchorage's are normally located within a Harbor area.