dockyard

Example Sentences

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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

"I personally worked in the dockyard, I think because we've got so many quite highly paid jobs in there it would trickle down if there was any input put into the dockyard," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

They described 19-year-old Zacharias Atkinson, also known as Puddy, as having "lived every moment to the fullest" after he was fatally injured at a privately-owned dockyard site in Bootle, Merseyside, on Wednesday afternoon.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 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

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