dockyard

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.

"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.

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

The Associated Press got rare access aboard a French navy Rubis-class submarine as it was being readied for another mission in sprawling naval dockyards in the Mediterranean port of Toulon.

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.