dockyard

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The new exhibition will open at Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre on 8 June, 200 years after Erebus was launched from the dockyard there in June 1826.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Babcock already has a vast covered hall at the Fife dockyard in which two frigates can be built side-by-side without interruptions due to weather.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

The town itself was founded as a Royal Navy dockyard in 1814, and five Royal Yachts were among the many ships built there.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

Solih insisted that the Indian military’s presence in the Maldives was only to build a dockyard under an agreement between the two governments and that his country’s sovereignty won’t be violated.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023

The dockyard was vast and isolated—the ideal place for, say, a renegade god and his horde of demons to settle in.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda