[f. BERTH v.1 + -AGE.] Accommodation for mooring vessels, harborage.
1834. Perthshire Advertiser, 30 Jan., 3/3. The next step is the formation of a Tide Harbour … so as to provide berthage for the ships out of the stream of the river…. The remaining work is a wet dock … affording berthage for 50 vessels of 100 tons.
1881. Daily News, 25 Jan., 5/8. The new sea wall, constructed of immense blocks of concrete, provides berthage for as many as thirty vessels at once.
