Definition of "shore station" []

• Military installation servicing naval forces (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The Norseman's operator then heard the Mormacrio calling up Olinda, and as soon as the shore station replied she passed the message to the British Consul at Pernambuco which was to start the opening moves of the greatest hunt ever known up to then."
• "Ashore, the OOD may be responsible for a shore station after normal working hours."
• "The Norseman's operator continued listening; and as he waited for some ship or shore station to acknowledge call for help, the wireless operator aboard the Clement reported to Captain Harris that he had got the raider report through."