How To Use Dockyard In A Sentence
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We headed back to the dockyards and on to the approach road for the Blackwall tunnel.
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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.
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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
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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
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At the same time, another foot-fighting system existed in and around the old southern dockyards of France, and on board sailing ships.
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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!
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This Eastern Fleet would have to be supported by a new dockyard and new logistic depots on the east coast of India.
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Order backlogs for Korean-built ships run to 2007, enough to keep some dockyards fully occupied in the next three years.
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He argued that this could become a focal point of the historic dockyard, also providing the city with a much-needed exhibition venue.
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Upside This 18th-century house was used as offices for the former dockyard.
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In 2005, 230,000 people crammed into the dockyard during the four days of the International Festival of the Sea alone.
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A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
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The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view.
Titanic - Destination disaster
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Why, for example, was there no naval dockyard in the country?
THE FOUR NATIONS: A History of the United Kingdom
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The government has allowed a dockyard in Plymouth to increase radioactive discharges into the sea by five times.
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The dockyard prides itself as ‘the south coast's biggest visitor attraction’.
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Ten thousand or so civilians worked at the dockyard to repair and supply the fleet, and went to and from their work in fleets of buses and special trains.
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Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief?
The Old Curiosity Shop
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A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
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The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view.
Titanic - Destination disaster
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We visited the dockyard, which is very similar to that of Portsmouth.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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Or, suppose I had been a sail ship, and had come in dismasted, and the dockyard was the only place where I could be refitted, would you have denied me a mast? and if you would not deny me a mast, on what principle will you deny me coal, both articles being declared by your Government innoxious?
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
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At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard.
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Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash, which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard.
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One new and two old battleships were torpedoed, a cruiser was hit, and the dockyard damaged.
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We could have stayed longer but we had some oppos waiting shoreside and they wanted to continue the dockyard tour.
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Chatham Navy Days was rounded off by a military tattoo in the Historic Dockyard, at which Prince Michael of Kent was the guest of honour.
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Opening extract: At Chatham Historic Dockyard today, a party of VIPs, headed by the Prime Minister and Duke of Gloucester representing the Royal Family, will gather for a parade and fly-past to mark Britain's first Armed Forces Day.
OPEN THREAD
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When Henry VIII founded a dockyard for building ships in Deptford, the area became renowned across the shipping industry.
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Continued from front page fragmented dockyard industry.
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At present the site, a former car and coach park for tourists visiting the nearby historic dockyard, is little more than a dusty pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was designed to be a dockyard, where some of the first ships of Russia's Baltic fleet were built, and also fortified to be an extra defense for the newly obtained Neva delta.
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She will then be able to be seen properly by visitors to the Historic Dockyard, who at present must view her through glass screens and often through a preservative mist.
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Although little remains of Vernon, any developer of the dockyard will have to preserve its character as most of the buildings are protected by law.
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A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
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In 1995 some 500 dockers were sacked for taking solidarity action with workers employed by a minor dockyard contractor.
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It was known to be an unsound ship at the dockyard, but the king refused to recall the voyage.
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A second strike on Pearl Harbor - which would have focused on the dockyards, fuel tanks, and remaining ships - was canceled.
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I was cordially received by the directing officer of the dockyard, which is of very large extent and surrounded by fortifications.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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Old-timers recollect long rows of bullock carts transporting goods from the warehouses at the Vallakkadavu dockyard.
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Their inhabitants were outnumbered by the numbers living in seaports, dockyard towns, and regional centres.
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There were occasions when the pride of the British tar was not abashed at being called a dockyard loafer, but these were rare.
The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century
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There were about a dozen kilometres of line, running from the upper dockyards down to a yard near the docks below the falls.
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VERNON: It's very easy to defend a town and a dockyard, which is why we would not to choose in urban built up areas if we had to.
CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003
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Outside Vealös we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness.
The South Pole~ On the Way to the South
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Portsmouth is a great port to sail from on an evening, with excellent views from the deck of the naval ships and dockyards.
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No boats are passing upstream towards Devonport dockyard and the sheltered water of the Hamoaze, but a lone heron stands on the slaty foreshore.
Country diary: Mount Edgcumbe, Cornwall
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We anchored off the dockyard, which is even larger than that of Portsmouth.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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The former dockyard has been zoned for tourist use.
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In 1801, as 1st lord of the Admiralty, St Vincent prosecuted an inquiry into theft in the dockyards which contributed to Lord Melville's impeachment in 1806 for malversation of funds.
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Ports, harbours and dockyards reanimated the scams of Pepys's day.
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A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
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The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view.
Titanic - Destination disaster
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He could renew the ship's guardrails without recourse to a dockyard.
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In the old dockyard quarter of La Boca, US tourists posed for photos with tango artistes beside the most evil-smelling, polluted river I've ever come across.
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At present, the ship and objects are separated by a walk of a quarter of a mile through the dockyard.
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‘I used to enjoy dockyards, harbours and coal mines,’ she says.
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He saw one of the dockyard's lighters making its way across the water.
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And a few minutes later they found themselves in Wong-lih's comfortably-furnished office, in the ordnance department of the dockyard.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
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The site was used by the Royal Navy for years to dump blue asbestos and other hazardous materials from ships and dockyards.
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A spokesman for the dockyard said they hoped to launch the first submarine within two years.
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He also designed the new dockyard buildings, many of which remain intact today.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
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The admiral told them that the most interesting novelty in the dockyard was the starting of Nasmyth's steam hammer.
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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Another three months passed, then the Victualling Board asked for cinder ashes from the smitheries in the dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich to mix with ground lime and ballast for repair work, but none of this seems to have worked, as in March 1813 the Victualling Board asked for the Navy Board's surveyor of buildings to make an inspection and give his opinion on the necessary repairs.
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The dock company could not operate a commercial port at the dockyard without disturbing nearby residents.
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Pencroft, descended to the dockyard, and proceeded to place the keelson, a thick mass of wood which forms the lower portion of a ship and unites firmly the timbers of the hull.
The Mysterious Island
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He said Delisle worked for a unit called HMCS Trinity, an intelligence facility at the naval dockyard in Halifax.
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Australian dockyard workers boycotted Dutch goods to be shipped to Indonesia to assist their military operations to gain back their colony.
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Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crown the hills, are all behind them.
The French Revolution
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The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view.
Titanic - Destination disaster
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At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard.
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Many prefer the historic dockyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The royal citadel, to strengthen the defences, was begun in 1666 and the dockyard at Devonport was developed in William III's reign.
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Members of the public are invited to go into the Plymouth base to have a close look at the dockyard's collection of architectural gems.
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At ten my children set off to the dockyard, which is a most prodigious effort of machinery, and they are promised the sight of an anchor in the act of being forged, a most cyclopean sight.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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– Went on shore yesterday afternoon, and inspected the dockyard, which is rapidly approaching its completion.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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We had too large a shipbuilding industry in this country for what we were able to sustain, and we had to come down to one dockyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the largest buildings in the dockyard is the foundry, which is considered the most complete in the world.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
