dockyard

How To Use dockyard In A Sentence

• We headed back to the dockyards and on to the approach road for the Blackwall tunnel.
• More than 300 people yesterday took part in a march to protest against the arrival of a nuclear submarine at a dockyard for refit work.
• Then, having got the first gun on deck -- already prepared in Port Royal dockyard, by being encased in a stout cylindrical packing of planks -- we passed the bights of our two hawsers round it, one at each end, and with all hands tailing on -- except one, whom we set to watch as a sentinel -- proceeded to parbuckle it up the face of the cliff. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• Thus in ironworks, and shipyards and dockyards trade becomes dull, almost comes to a standstill and men have to be discharged. Manufacturing as a Profession
• At the same time, another foot-fighting system existed in and around the old southern dockyards of France, and on board sailing ships.
• He obtained a ballcock of a WC, welded it to a spike, and persuaded the Dockyard to cover it with gold leaf - an expensive procedure!
• This Eastern Fleet would have to be supported by a new dockyard and new logistic depots on the east coast of India.
• Order backlogs for Korean-built ships run to 2007, enough to keep some dockyards fully occupied in the next three years.
• He argued that this could become a focal point of the historic dockyard, also providing the city with a much-needed exhibition venue. Times, Sunday Times
• Upside This 18th-century house was used as offices for the former dockyard. Times, Sunday Times