This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. Danish to English
  3. Tourism & Travel

vandbatteriet

17:49 May 29, 2014
This question was closed without grading. Reason: Answer found elsewhere

Danish to English translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel
Danish term or phrase: vandbatteriet
We're on St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies/U.S. Virgin Islands, and it may help if you know some Spanish as well:

"Mod vandsiden er fortet beskyttet af vandbatteriets kanoner."

My first inclination was "the shore battery" without capitalization. However, there's a U.S. government publication from 1925 that has this as:

"Water Battery; Shoreward outwork, or waterside trench, of Fort Christian, St. Thomas Harbor. Since eighteenth century, called, "Vandbatteri ” or “Water-Batterie”; Spanish “La Batería Water” or “Batería del Agua.”

There are other references to this location as "the water battery" or "a water battery" with and without capitalization.

From the 1925 reference I found this Spanish description for something similar in Puerto Rico:
"La primera estructura militar erigida en este promontorio data de 1539 y consistía en una torre de piedra construida contra el risco a unos 60 pies sobre el nivel del mar. Tenía cuatro troneras de cañón y una plataforma circular para tres piezas de artillería que se conocía con el nombre de ‘batería del agua’."

Now, from reading the Spanish I'm still inclined toward "the shore battery" but possibly with capital letters, but I fear I'll be sailing into the face of some resistance with that.

Anyone have any thoughts, however well-founded or not? Anybody been to the place in question and seen any signs?
Charles Ek
United States
Local time: 22:08


Summary of answers provided
4the water battery
Sven Petersson


Discussion entries: 8





  

Answers


40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the water battery


Explanation:
:o)

Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 05:08
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 11
Notes to answerer
Asker: Sorry, but that's not a thought, it's just regurgitation.

Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search