Major General James G. Blunt

Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast.^[4] The natural waterway inlet has a depth of 45 feet (14 m) with an island to peninsula shoreline width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km).

The ship canal approach is defined by two jetties extending into the Gulf of Mexico with distances of 4.5 miles (7.2 km) from the Bolivar Peninsula and 2.25 miles (3.62 km) from Galveston Island. The jetty harbor entrance originated in the 1890s as a preventative structure to inhibit the coastal sediment transport progressions by means of deviations with the continental margin and the Gulf Stream ocean current.

Pictorial Biography

Depictions of Bolivar Roads at Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island

Anonymous. "Bolivar Roads". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
Anonymous. "Ocean Shipping". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
"Bolivar Roads Anchorage". AIS Ports. MarineTraffic.
"§ 110.197 - Galveston Harbor, Bolivar Roads Channel, Texas" [Title 33, Chapter I, Subchapter I, Part 110]. Code of Federal Regulations.
"NOAA Nautical Chart 11323" [Approaches to Galveston Bay]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"NOAA Nautical Chart 11324" [Galveston Bay Entrance]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"NOAA Nautical Chart 11326" [Galveston Bay, Texas]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

☆ Refuse Act of 1899	☆ MARPOL 73/78
☆ Oil Pollution Act of 1924	☆ Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships of 1980
☆ Oil Pollution Act of 1961	☆ Oil Pollution Act of 1990
☆ Oil Pollution Act of 1973	☆ Regulation of ship pollution in United States