dockyard
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Sixteen are stored in Plymouth dockyard, but there is no plan for them to be scrapped there, so if the pilot is successful, that work is likely to be carried out in Fife.
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
In May the vessel finally left the Devonport dockyard where it had undergone a seven-and-a-half-year refit.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2023
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
On December 7, 1776, he set the dockyard on fire, wiping out 20 tons of hemp used to make rope, 6 tons of ordinary rope, and about 6,000 feet of large-size rope.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
