Dock Sentence Examples

I can take you to the dock on the other side.

In the city there is one small dock which can be used only at full tide.

The dock railway station lies a mile from the town station.

Queen Street, the principal thoroughfare, leads inland from the main dock, and contains the majority of the public buildings.

It now has a large stone dry dock.

The Bute trustees in 1885 acquired the Glamorgan canal and its dock, and in the following year obtained an act for vesting their various docks and the canal in a company now known as the Cardiff Railway Company.

In 1880 the graving dock accommodation consisted of one double dock at the extremity of Dockyard creek, known as Nos.

The harbour is provided with a floating dock, completed in 1902.

The southern coast in particular is deeply indented; and there two bold peninsulas, extending for several miles into the sea, form two capacious natural harbours, namely, Deep Water Bay, with the village of Stanley to the east, and Tytam Bay, which has a safe, well-protected entrance showing a depth of 10 to 16 fathoms. An in-shore island on the west coast, called Aberdeen, or Taplishan, affords protection to the Shekpywan or Aberdeen harbour, an inlet provided with a granite graving dock, the caisson gate of which is 60 ft.

The particular site of Immingham was chosen because the deep-water channel of the Humber, which lower down runs midway between the shores, here makes an inward sweep and leads right to the dock gates, thus obviating much initial dredging, providing ingress and egress at any state of the tide, and rendering the towage of the vessels unnecessary.

The harbour, with wet and slip dock, occupies both sides of the river from the New Bridge to the sea, and is protected on the south by a pier projecting some distance into the sea, and on the north by a breakwater with a commodious dry dock.

It is on the Glasgow & South-Western railway, and has a harbour and dock from which coal and goods are the main exports.

The Cavendish dock adjoining the Ramsden dock on the E., 146 ac. in extent, has been leased by the Furness Railway Cp. to the firm of Vickers Ltd.

It has an extensive harbour (the area of the dock being 7* acres).

The distinction between real and nominal sovereignty was familiar to medieval writers, who recognized a double sovereignty, and distinguished between (1) the real or practical sovereignty resident in the people, and (2) the personal sovereignty of the ruler (Adolf Dock, Der Souveranitaitsbegrif, &c., p. 13).

In the river are two pontoon docks and an immense dry dock.

An iron swing-bridge connects the dock with the Great Northern railway.

There is also a coal dock, and the port has railway and roadway connexion with Batavia.

The tramway was converted into a railway, and in 1865 opened for passenger traffic. In 1866 a dock (71 acres) and tidal basin (21 acres) were constructed, but since about 1902 they have fallen into disuse and the coal is diverged to other ports, chiefly Port Talbot.

There is also a naval dock and arsenal with a torpedo-boat basin 755 ft.

Pearl Harbor is the U.S. naval station, and a great naval dock, nearly 1200 ft.

The dock is provided with railways and machinery for facilitating traffic, including a large grain elevator.

The Bermudas became an important naval and coaling station in 1869, when a large iron dry dock was towed across the Atlantic and placed in a secure position in St George, while, owing to their important strategic position in mid-Atlantic, the British government maintains a strong garrison.

There is a small dock, and phosphate of lime is extensively dug in the neighbourhood and exported for use as manure.

The shipping trade of the port revived after the construction of the new dock in 1841, and corn and timber have been imported for centuries.

A great obstacle to the development of the port is the absence of modern mechanical appliances for loading and unloading vessels, and of quay space and dock accommodation.

There are also theatres, a chamber of commerce, corn exchange, market-hall, custom-house, and the dock offices, a handsome Italian building.

One of its masters was Joseph Milner (1744-1797), author of a history of the Church; and among its students were Andrew Marvell the poet (1621-1678) and William Wilberforce the philanthropist (1759-1833), who is commemorated by a column and statue near the dock offices, and by the preservation of the house of his birth in High Street.

The original harbour occupied that part of the river Hull which faced the old town, but in 1774 an act was passed for forming a dock on the site of the old fortifications on the right bank of the Hull.

This afterwards became known as Queen's dock, and with Prince's and Humber docks completes the circle round the old town.

The small railway dock opens from Humber dock.

East of the Hull lie the Victoria dock and extensive timber ponds, and west of the Humber dock basin, parallel to the Humber, is Albert dock.

If an iron ship be swung when upright for deviation, and the mean horizontal and vertical magnetic forces at the compass positions be also observed in different parts of the world, mathematical analysis shows that the deviations are caused partly by the permanent magnetism of hard iron, partly by the transient induced magnetism of soft iron both horizontal and vertical, and in a lesser degree by iron which is neither magnetically hard nor soft, but which becomes magnetized in the same manner as hard iron, though it gradually loses its magnetism on change of conditions, as, for example, in the case of a ship, repaired and hammered in dock, steaming in an opposite direction at sea.

These figures explain how and why Antwerp has outgrown its dock accommodation.

The eight principal basins or docks already existing in 1908 were (I) the Little or Bonaparte dock; (2) the Great dock, also constructed in Napoleon's time; (3) the Kattendijk, built in 1860 and enlarged in 1881; (4) the Wood dock; (5) the Campine dock, used especially for minerals; (6) the Asia dock, which is in direct communication with the Meuse by a canal as well as with the Scheldt; (7) the Lefebvre dock; and (8) the America dock, which was only opened in 1905.

Two new docks, called "intercalary" because they would fit into whatever scheme might be adopted for the rectification of the course of the Scheldt, were still to be constructed, leading out of the Lefebvre dock and covering 70 acres.

So popular has it become that besides being used for massive constructions like breakwaters, dock walls, culverts, and for foundations of buildings, lighthouses and bridges, it is also proving its usefulness to the architect and engineer in many other ways.

The original scheme included a high-level main basin covering an area of 55 ac., with an entrance lock from the fairway, a dry or graving dock 750 ft.

The harbour has an inner and outer division, with wet dock and wharves.

The boat dock does not accommodate large vessels.

There is wharf accommodation on both banks of the river, a graving dock which can be used by vessels up to 5000 tons, and two patent slips which can take up ships of 1000 and 400 tons respectively.

They each docked in a separate dock in London upon the same day, and all within two hours of each other.

North of this the "third entrance" has been recently constructed, with two enormous locks, one of which in an emergency could be used as an additional dock.

The largest ships can enter the harbour, which has a minimum depth of 30 ft.; it has two dry docks, a graving dock and a floating dry dock.

The port is provided with a floating dock.

The port is the most important on the west coast, and accommodates vessels of 3000 tons in a floating dock; there is also a graving dock.

Shipbuilding is also carried on, and there is a large dry dock and a patent slip for repairing vessels.

Thus it comes about that the largest use of cement is for manufacturing concrete for dock and harbour work, and for the making of foundations.

There is a wet dock of 32 acres.

It possesses a good harbour; docks and extensive coalingwharves, which have been acquired by government from the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and are undergoing considerable extensions; an admiralty dockyard; and many facilities for shipping.

The Tyne dock has a water-area of 50 acres, the tidal basin of 10 acres, and the quays and yards about 300 acres.

The modern harbour, dating from 1815, has since 1880 been provided with a dock excavated in the rock, 986 ft.

In 1888 the gates of Wellington dock were widened to admit a larger type of Channel steamers; new coal stores were erected on the Northampton quay; the slipway was lengthened 40 ft., and widened for the reception of vessels up to 800 tons.

The harbour is protected by two main piers, of which the western is a fine structure by Sir John Rennie, and divided into four parts by others; it has a wet dock and extensive quayage.

These included a tidal basin and, opening out of it, a deep dock and two locks, in themselves serving as large docks, which lead to three basins and four docks.

Graving dock dues, including expenses of removals, cartages, use of shears, stages and graving dock materials, shall be allowed in full.

There is a military port at Talcahuano, in Concepcion Bay, strongly fortified, and provided with arsenal and repair shops, a large dry dock and a patent slip. The naval school, which occupies one of the noteworthy edifices of Valparaiso, is attended by 90 cadets and is noted for the thoroughness of its instruction.

There is a floating dock to lift 2000 tons, and at Stockton there is a patent slip to take large vessels for repair.

In 1847 the Birkenhead Dock Warehousing Company opened its first warehouse, capable of holding 80,000 tons of goods.

A line called the Dock Extension railway was carried round the whole, and the company erected, for their workmen, the Dock Cottages.

Of these the principal are the Egerton, Morpeth, Morpeth Branch and Wallasey Docks; while the Alfred Dock, with its three entrances, nineteen pairs of lock-gates, 8 acres.

The massive iron bridges across the dock entrances are opened and closed by hydraulic power, which is likewise applied to the cranes, coal-hoists, warehouse-lifts and other machinery about.

Prince's Dock lies within its bounds and the shipbuilding yards have turned out many famous ironclads and liners.

The east side of the river (known as St Thomas's and Port Tennant) is approached from the west by a road carried over the North Dock Lock and the river by two girder drawbridges, each of which has a double line of roadway (on which tramways are laid), two footpaths and a line of railway.

A canal connecting the tidal part of the river Neath with the mouth of the Tawb, made in 1789, was in 1824 connected with the Vale of Neath canal by means of an aqueduct across the Neath river, when also a small dock, Port Tennant (so named after its owner) or Salthouse Dock, was made near the east pier, and this continued to be used till 1880.

In 1851 the river was diverted eastward into a new channel (called the New Cut) and its old channel was locked and floated, thereby forming the North Dock with an area of 112 acres and a half-tide basin 500 yards long covering 22 acres.

The Swansea Valley canal has a connecting lock with this dock, and on the island between the dock and the New Cut are patent fuel works, copper ore yards and other mineral sheds and large grain stores and flour mills.

The South Dock, begun in 1847 under powers obtained that year by a private company, transferred in 1857 to the harbour trustees and opened in 1859, is mainly used for shipping coal and for discharging timber and fish.

The next development was on the east side of the river where the natural inlet of Fabian's Bay, inside the harbour mouth, was utilized for the construction of the Prince of Wales's Dock (authorized 1874, opened October 1881, extension opened March 1898).

The very rapid increase in the demand for anthracite coal (for the shipment of which Swansea has practically a monopoly) soon necessitated still further accommodation and in July 1904 was begun the King's Dock, which lies farther east and has an entrance direct from the bay.

The total dock area of Swansea has thus been increased to about 147 acres with a total length of quays exceeding 3 m.

Over one hundred fishing-smacks and trawlers usually land their catches at the south dock, where there is a flourishing fish-market.

In 1897 a floating dock was fitted up capable of holding vessels of 12,000 tons.

He then settled at the London Docks, and organized the Dockers' Union of which he became general secretary in June 1887, taking a prominent part in the dock strike of 1889.

There is no dock for the repair of vessels; but there are two quays at the town.

Till 1772 the town leased the first harbour (finished in 1710) from Sir John Shaw, the superior, but acquired it in that and the following year, and a graving dock was opened in 1786.

Each chief valley has a railway connecting a string of mining villages, and converging seaward to the busy ports of Newport, Cardiff and Barry (a town created on a sandy island by the excavation of a great dock to form an outlet for the mines).

It possesses a floating dock capable of lifting a vessel of 850o tons, a floating workshop, a patent slip for small craft, hydraulic cranes, &c. The minimum depth alongside the quays at low water is 23 ft., increased at places to over 30 ft.

The first dry dock was constructed in 1896; in 1905 it was supplemented by another, the largest in Spain.

On the west of the West dock is the timber dock, and east of the East dock is another series of islands joined together so as to form basins and quays, one of which is the State Marine dock (1790-1795) with the arsenal and admiralty offices.

Opening out of one of the crescent canals which penetrate the city from the Y is the State Entrepot dock (1900), the free harbour of Amsterdam, where the produce from the Dutch East Indies is stored.

On the north side of the Y are the dry docks and the !petroleum dock (1880-1890).

There are five graving docks, three of which together make one large dock 648 ft.

Prince's dock, of which the foundation-stone was laid by the prince of Wales in 1875, was opened in 1879, and is 1460 ft.

South of the Victoria dock, the foundation-stone of the Alexandra dock, the largest in India, was laid by the prince of Wales in 1905.

During this period, too, the importance of Bombay as a naval base, long since recognized, was increased by the building of a dock (1750), a second being added in 1762.

The state possesses a floating dock and a marine arsenal at Galatz.

The former marshy estuary called Wallasey Pool is occupied by the Great Float, forming an immense dock (see Birkenhead).

The dock accommodation has since been considerably extended, and the town enjoys great prosperity.

Adjoining it is the Upper Dock.

By the Harbour Act of 1868, the Dee near the harbour was diverted from the south at a cost of L80,000, and 90 acres of new ground (in addition to 25 acres formerly made up) were provided on the north side of the river for the Albert Basin (with a graving dock), quays and warehouses.

This pre-eminence is due to its excellent dock and harbour accommodation and capacious warehouses.

There are several dry docks, of which the Prince of Wales Graving Dock (1858), the largest, measures 370 ft.

Space can always be had for more dock room by reclaiming the east sands, where in the 17th and 18th centuries Leith Races were held, the theme of a humorous descriptive poem by Robert Fergusson..

At Ferrybank, on the Kilkenny side of the river, there is a shipbuilding yard with patent slip and graving dock.

The older portion was converted into a wet dock in 1877, and the entrance and bar of the new harbour were deepened.

Alongside this is an extensive dock, and behind it an inner port.

He not only terminated a disastrous civil war and brought under control the spirit of ancient feudalism, but with a clear survey of the conditions of foreign powers he secured England in almost uninterrupted peace while he developed her commerce, strengthened her slender navy and built, apparently for the first time, a naval dock at Portsmouth.

Tenby is a station on the WhitlandPembroke Dock branch of the South Wales system of the Great Western railway.

After passing through a course of instruction at the Royal Engineers' establishment, Chatham, he was promoted lieutenant in 1854, and was sent to Pembroke dock to assist in the construction of the fortifications then being erected for the defence of Milford Haven.

Beyond the bridge in the upper waters of the inlet is a dry dock.

The Clyde trust has constructed a large dock here.

Opposite Victoria dock is another ventilation shaft for the tunnels under the river.

There is also ancillary accommodation, dressing rooms and loading dock etc. attached to the main performance space.

With a dock worker, PC EDOM recovered the man from the dock and performed artificial respiration.

In addition, there are direct rail connections to the deep-water berths in King George Dock.

The Lowther Hæmatite Iron and Steel Works are in close proximity to the Lonsdale Dock, and consist of three large modern blast furnaces.

Planning permission to construct a dry dock or rock-filled bund [2] .

Able UK applied for planning permission to build a dry dock bund in August.

The moth caterpillar includes Dock among its food plants.

Turn right and walk down past the ships chandlers and take the next right to the dock side.

No. 4 Key, King's Dock, offering 400 m of quayside and three 10-tonne capacity grabbing cranes.

Gwyn and Kay moved to St David's Diocese early in 1970 where he served a second curacy at Pembroke Dock.

In the garden I have dandelions, clover, dock, nettles and a big patch of ground elder to take care of.

By the 1930s, the North Dock which had in the previous century been the center of the town's fortunes, was largely derelict.

A large mature broad-leaved dock can produce up to 60,000 ripe seeds per year.

They said she was in dry dock about 6 months ago... .

Boat painting is another area of their expertise with high quality work being carried out in the covered wet dock.

A small disused dock exists where the original quayside was.

The dock is compatible with all iPod's that have a dock connector.

There is a concrete loading dock at the front edge of the site.

Originally i was looking at an apple ipod official dock which was selling for £ 35!

Locos are prepared on what was once the cattle dock, but is now the coal dock, at Embsay.

This system revolutionized dock work, as far fewer dockworkers were needed to unload and store the containers.

Chatham Dock occupies one of three basins of the former naval dockyard.

On the left, below the canopy, is Worsley dry dock - the oldest dry dock on the canal sysytem.

There was also a small dry dock at the west side of the dock.

The dock had its own river key situated just east of the entrance lock and a large warehouse, known as Victoria Wharf.

In the UK, broad-leaved dock is a host for the potato eelworm, Ditylenchus destructor.

They finally got the firedrake into a dry dock at Gibraltar and could now see just how bad the damage really was.

For pictures of the early gentian, shore dock, or marsh fritillary, please contact the press office.

Dock Today in the Garden We have four goldfinches at the niger seed feeder this morning.

Bernard lewis GOP store for you to the dock.

The dock housed the first purpose built granary for the Baltic grain market.

Visitors will get an unprecedented view of the racing from specially erected grandstands around the dock.

Any statutory dock hereditament falling within this category should be given the Special Category Code 435.

At South Shields HE damaged the river jetty and offices in the dock area.

Yellow Dock is a mild laxative - use 1 teaspoon to 1 cup of water.

Will not break established leys if possible as re-seeding has caused the big dock problem.

Soon after leaving the dock we anchored for a safety drill including launching the starboard lifeboat.

The iPod mini slots into the iBoost mini which then sits in the charging dock, simultaneously charging both batteries.

In October - November she was placed into wet dock for the removal of her gun mountings.

There was an inhuman silence in the room, like that sea of inhuman silence round the dock of the condemned murderer.

In 2005 some adventurous members explored the submarine ocelot in dry dock at Chatham, successfully negotiating all the hatches.

Yet, the ministers who committed this outrage are not in the dock.

The Preston Dock Railroad Order The Secretary of State's decision to make the Order to transfer ownership of Preston Dock Railroad.

The lift is used to safely and quickly transfer heavy air freight pallets from road going vehicles to a loading dock.

Chapter Four The Brandy Rock dock looked perfectly peaceful.

To achieve this we have completely refitted the existing site in Tobacco Dock in tandem with the new build of Sevenoaks.

A UXB pierced the concrete roadway of the South Dock, 60 ' from the NW corner of the Hendon Dock.

Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew's Dock in Hull.

During construction, a railroad was laid on the dock floor that allowed engines to remove wagons loaded with excavated spoil.

For instance, in the city and dock levels you can find skateboards, pogo sticks, cars and even boats and rockets.

Dock labor was not subsidized by the poor rate, which was no more affected by it than by other types of manual labor.

Instead the bridge has been abandoned and provides a sunshade for people fishing in South Dock.

The archive is particularly strong in the areas of maritime history and includes interviews with seafarers, dock workers and titanic survivors.

Brady who seemed unmoved, walked down the dock steps flanked by two prison officers.

Entrance via Dock Gate 4 SS Shieldhall is maintained and operated by the members who are all unpaid.

Some bitters widely used in traditional medicine in North America include yarrow, yellow dock, goldenseal, Oregon grape, and vervain.

Subsequently to this period the fine range of buildings known as the iron ship repairing shop was erected close to the Somerset Dock, and added greatly to the repairing resources of the yard.

Associated with this dock was the construction of adjacent deep-water wharf walls, together with the great 160-ton crane.

The accommodation provided includes a dry dock 410 ft.

The programme of construction which this initial expenditure was to cover was fixed at two battleships of about 16,000 tons displacement, one armoured cruiser of about 12,000 tons displacement, some few auxiliary vessels (destroyers and gunboats), and a floating dock to lift about 17,000 tons.

The Barry line from Barry dock joins the Great Western and Taff Vale railways at Cardiff, and the Cardiff Railway Company (which owns all the docks) has a line from Pontypridd via Llanishen to the docks.

The opening of the Taff Vale railway in 1840 and of the South Wales railway to Cardiff in 1850 necessitated further accommodation, and the trustees of the marquess (who died in 1848) began in 1851 and opened in 1855 the East Bute dock and basin measuring 464 acres.

Still they fell far short of the requirements of the district for in 1865 the Taff Vale Railway Company opened a dock of 26 acres under the headland at Penarth, while in 1884 a group of colliery owners, dissatisfied with their treatment at Cardiff, obtained powers to construct docks at Barry which are now 114 acres in extent.

The harbour of Dunkirk (see DocK) is approached by a fine natural roadstead entered on the east and west, and protected on the north by sand-banks.

Preferential dock charges are prohibited and a port fund established under the act.

Whitby harbor - 1911 The Dock End area of Whitby harbor showing the old wooden key on the left of the picture.

The main areas of salt marsh affected were those seaward of the Cleddau bridge, which spans the haven immediately east of Pembroke Dock.

Opposite Victoria Dock is another ventilation shaft for the tunnels under the river.

Mature dock plants have been stunted by sheep grazing leaves.

Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew 's Dock in Hull.

Sprat fishing boats Open In the 20th century, Dundee also had a fish dock.

Sadly, the original wheel was stolen when the Arctic Corsair was broken into when laid up in Hull Albert Dock.

The archive is particularly strong in the areas of maritime history and includes interviews with seafarers, dock workers and Titanic survivors.

There is a common tern colony noted at the entrance to Imperial Dock, Leith Docks.

Once your ship is down on the dock, unfasten the belt, get up, and go Starboard into the storage room.

Norman River Fishing & Cruises Pass along any vendors dock areas.

The child leaned precariously over the edge of the dock, peering into the water.

The storm had knocked their sailboat cattywampus and it had slammed into the dock and taken on water.

In Hickory, Dickory Dock, what did the mouse do before the clock struck one?

The Nano does not come with much included in the box (just a dock adapter, USB cable and headphones), so you may need to invest in a protective case, armband, or other accessories -- these quickly add up and Apple knows it.

With the iPad, you get a dock connector to USB cable, power adapter, SIM eject tool (only included with the Wi-Fi and 3G model), and documentation.

If you need accessories for your new gadget, like a case, a dock, a camera connection kit, or even a keyboard, you can get those there as well.Don't forget to check specialty stores in your area that sell and service Apple products.

You can also pick up your order from the shipping dock, located at the company's Orange Park, FL facility.

You must consider not just the cost of the boat itself, but the cost to have it at a dock, as well as the expenses of fueling and maintaining it.

The dock also recharges the camera's battery pack.

You may need to use a grassy area, dock or beach wedding reception tent for the reception space.

Nassau Bahamas cruises invariably dock at the Prince George Wharf in downtown Nassau.

The dock is centrally located at Rawson Square, home to many of Nassau's shopping venues, including the Straw Market and various luxury shops.

Even the largest ships are able to dock in Nassau, and more than one million cruise visitors each year come ashore at this popular port.

These tours will also return you to the dock, and the cost of transportation is included in the shore excursion price.

Hundreds of cruise ships dock at the port every year, bringing thousands of tourists to the tiny island.

Royal Caribbean vessels routinely dock at Terminal 2, and free shuttle buses are available to transport guests from the terminal to the secured parking facilities.

Because there is no waiting period for marriages in Hawaii, couples can dock, arrange for their marriage license, enjoy a beautiful tropical ceremony, take photographs, and be back onboard the cruise ship before the sailing deadline.

However, many hope the vessels will be back in operation soon since they represent the culture of a time gone by and it would be a shame to dock them permanently.

Gone are the days when you could show up at the dock with suitcase in hand hoping to negotiate your way on board for next to nothing.

You can choose from party cruises that dock each day in a different exotic locale or voyages that offer extended stays at all-inclusive resorts.The latter option doesn't require spending the night on the ship.

Doing so will get you closer to some of the beautiful terrain and allow you to dock in more rustic locations.

It is one of the boldest and handsomest of hardy grasses for the margins of artificial water or streams, associated with such things as the Typhas, Acorus, Bulrush, and Water Dock.

S. terebinthinaceum (Prairie Dock) has stems 4 to 10 feet high, panicled at the summit, and bearing many small heads of light yellow flowers.

Other plants such as rosemary, rue, and yellow dock have similar effects.

The facility has more than 400 beautifully landscaped campsites, and each waterfront spot has its own private dock.

This is not the case with Touchstone.Instead, a special Touchstone back cover is used with the Palm Pre and then you can simply place the phone on the Touchstone Charging Dock.

Herbal supplements that will benefit individuals who have anemia include bilberry, dandelion, goldenseal, mullein, nettle, Oregon grape root, red raspberry, and yellow dock.

Herbal supplements that benefit individuals who have iron deficiency anemia include alfalfa, burdock root, dandelion, dong quai, mullein, nettle, raspberry leaf, shepherd's purse, and yellow dock.

After arriving at Ayala Cove (where the ferries dock on Angel Island), visitors must make a thirty-minute walk to the Immigration Center, although shuttle service can be arranged for those who require assistance.

If you have a mobility issue, you can take a tram up the steep path that leads from ferry dock to the prison buildings.

Many of the devices are rechargeable, allowing you to dock them in a station in between uses.

Building an old-fashioned Crokinole board is just one of many projects including building a floating dock, creating waterfall whirlygigs, making a rope mat or a hammock and more.

The Loading Dock is a reuse facility accepting donations of building materials.

Visit The Loading Dock's website to contact the organization prior to making a donation.

Nothing else appears on the screen, including the Dock, icons or even the top menu bar.

Visitors begin their Alcatraz trip from the dock at Fisherman's Wharf.

The National Park Service offers a short orientation film near the dock as well as audio walking tours, which feature the actual voices of guards and inmates.

A shuttle is offered each hour from the dock for those preferring not to climb the steep hill to the prison, but few parts of Alcatraz are wheelchair accessible.

Dock your I-Pod, listen to the radio or wake to an alarm buzzer.

The iPod nano has its own dock, also available to purchase online from the Apple Store.

The dock allows you to sync your iPod with iTunes without having to plug directly into your computer every time.

You can plug your stereo speakers into your dock to play the songs from your iPod.

But, like the headphones, the iPod nano dock has its detractors.

Users had difficulty making the dock work, while others were just generally dissatisfied with what the dock offered for the price - the dock isn't a necessary investment for downloading to your iPod, it simply makes it easier.

Some customers didn't like the nano dock in particular, and recommended purchasing Apple's Universal iPod dock.

Universal dock, plus adapters to make your iPod nano fit nice and snugly in the dock.

Customer reviews of this kit were more enthusiastic than for the dock or the headphones, with a 4 out of 5 star grade.

The dock costs around $60 and is sold separately.

Rather than having a plug at each end like the other iPods, the cord that comes with an iPod shuffle comes with a USB plug at one end and a dock at the other.

The dock has a metal tab coming up on one end that corresponds with a hole in your iPod itself - put the iPod into the dock so that the device clicks over that hole.

Once the installation completes, you will have a little side dock icon with several basic Yahoo!

Large windows let in views of the dock, while low-hung lights provide mood lighting when the sun goes down.

The restaurant is located right on the water, with its own dock making it a favorite with local boaters.

Dan bypassed the mansion and led him towards the lake, where two forms stood on a large dock.

The dock and victualling yards occupy together an area of some i oo acres spread over the shores on both sides of those arms of the great harbour known as "Dockyard" and "French" creeks, the dockyard being partly on the former, but principally on the latter creek.

Among later additions were gunmounting stores, boiler shop, boat sheds, canteen, coal stores, &c., together with a double dock 750 ft.

The naval arsenal is situated on the " north basin " of the Buenos Aires port, and the military port at Bahia Blanca is provided with a dry dock of the largest size, and extensive repair shops.

Within this harbour is the small harbour of the deys, now transformed into a wet dock.

In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.

Stolypin, there is no intention of converting the ministerial bench into a prisoners' dock.

Conversely, trains arriving at A from B, C and D must be broken up. and remade in order to distribute their wagons to the different, dock branches.

The fishing trade had become so important by 1800 that it was necessary to construct a new dock.

The town possesses a pier and important dock accommodation, including a graving-dock 600 ft.

During the 19th century numerous forts have been constructed for the protection of the Haven and of the royal dockyard at Pembroke Dock.

The word mutzen, to dock, cut off, which first appears in the 14th century, does not help much, though the name of another vestment akin to the almuce - the mozzetta - has been by some traced to it through the Ital.

A dock was constructed at the western or farther end of the Giudecca Canal, near the railway.

The docks, accessible only at high water, include a wet basin and a dry dock.

The outer harbour (1400 acres water area) is furnished with a graving dock, completed in 1905, 520 ft.

At his trial he was defended and betrayed by the infamous Leonard MacNally, and was convicted of treason; and after delivering an eloquent speech from the dock, was hanged on the 20th of September 1803.

The South Bute dock of 502 acres, authorized in 1894 and capable of accommodating the largest vessels afloat, was opened in 1907, bringing the whole dock area of Cardiff (including timber ponds) to about 210 acres.

There are also ten private graving and floating docks and one public graving dock.

His term of office was clouded by the assassination of King Humbert (29th July 1900), and his administration was brought to an end in February 1901 by a vote of the chamber condemning his weak attitude towards a great dock strike at Genoa.

The dock accommodation is extensive.

Mort's dock, another large dry dock, is at Mort's Bay, Balmain, while there are five floating docks with a combined lifting power of 3895 tons, and the three patent slips in Mort's Bay can raise between them 3040 tons.

The total area is 176 acres, a large new dock, the Greenland, being opened in 1904.

Besides these authorities, the London County Council, the Board of Trade, the Admiralty, the Metropolitan and City Police, police of riparian boroughs, Kent and Essex Fisheries Commissioners, all the dock companies and others played some part in the government and public services of the port.

The undertakings of the three dock companies mentioned above were transferred to and vested in the Port Authority, an equivalent amount of port stock created under the act being issued to each.

The Port Authority fixes the port rates, which, however, must not in any two consecutive years exceed one-thousandth part of the value of all imports and exports, or a three-thousandth of the value of goods discharged from or taken on board vessels not within the premises of a dock.

The first dock (opened in 1846), the second (1859) and the third (1882) cover an area of '28 acres, with timber ponds of 44 acres and a total quayage of 2500 yards.

Constructed by the Great Central Railway Co., the dock in 1921 comprised a square basin and two long arms (including a graving dock) running parallel to each other on the western side, of a total area of 45 ac., with 5,400 ft.

The dock is specially designed and equipped for dealing with the coal, timber, grain and wool trades.

The Alexandra Dock, which is 852 ft.

The provision of a new graving dock adjoining the Alexandra was delayed in October 1905 by a subsidence of the ground during its construction.

Parliamentary powers were obtained to construct a graving dock capable of accommodating the largest class of warships.

There are separate basins for fishing boats and a dock for torpedo-boat flotilla.

In the area enclosed are the Victoria basin, covering 64 acres, the;Alfred basin of 82 acres, a graving dock 529 ft.

The graving dock made in 1762 was the first dock of the kind in Scotland.

In 1907 the construction of a new dock was undertaken, to cover 16 acres, with a depth of 40 ft.

In 1905 a sixth graving dock was opened, having a length of 8754 ft., and a width of 90 ft.

The SouthWestern Company owns the local railway stations (Town and Dock and Southampton West, besides suburban stations), but through connexions are made with the north by way of the Great Western and Great Central and the Midland and South-Western Junction railways.

For the better accommodation of the increasing commerce of the port of Boston, the commonwealth bought a considerable frontage upon the harbour lines and constructed a dock capable of receiving the largest vessels, and has supplemented the work of the United States government in deepening the approaches to the wharves.

After failing in 1883, they obtained parliamentary powers for this purpose in 1884, and the first sod of the new dock at Barry was cut in November of that year.

In 1882-1884 a dock some 7 acres in extent was constructed, with an entrance lock giving access to the quay sides for vessels of 3000 tons.

The port possesses a floating dock 295 ft.

The Lonsdale dock is 4z acres in extent.

Some were released without charge - others were charged with swimming in the dock or attempted criminal damage... .

The water is clean with a dock for swimmers and the occasional small sailboat from the nearby yacht club.

From this year, research and teaching will be centered on the new waterside Docklands Campus at the Royal Albert Dock.

Kodak Easy Share Cameras are part of the company's Easy Share System, which includes the Easy Share Printer Dock 6000.

Once the camera is placed in the dock, images are automatically uploaded to your computer.

As the ship approaches the dock, you will have a spectacular view of New Providence Island, including the many eccentric buildings.

The submarine bumped against the dock on the other side of the river, and the soldier turned it off.

The new Kuhwarderbasin, on the left bank of the river, as well as two other large dock basins (now leased to the Hamburg-American Company), raise the number of basins to twelve in all.

Ferry boats ply frequently between Pembroke Dock and Neyland on the opposite shore of the Haven.

On Cockatoo Island, a few miles west of the city, the government have two large dry docks, the Fitzroy dock, 450 ft.

There is a steady export of coal, and the harbour is provided with a wet dock and patent slip. In smuggling days the "Canty carles" of Dysart were professed "free traders."

There are two large fish-docks, and, for general traffic, the Royal dock, communicating with the Humber through a tidal basin, the small Union dock, and the extensive Alexandra dock, together with graving docks, timber yards, a patent slip, &c. These docks have an area of about 104 acres, but were found insufficient for the growing traffic of the port, and in 1906 the construction of a large new dock, of about 40 acres' area and 30 to 35 ft.

The work done includes a concrete dock, mechanically equipped to convey freight between river and railways.

In 1864 the Bute trustees unsuccessfully sought powers for constructing three additional docks to cost two millions sterling, but under the more limited powers granted in 1866, the Roath basin (12 acres) was opened in 1874, and (under a substituted act of 1882) the Roath dock (33 acres) was opened in 1887.

In 1897 Hamburg was provided with a huge floating dock, 558 ft.

The sub bumped against a dock, and the door opened to reveal the man he assumed was Jim, dressed in his workout clothing with mussed hair.

In 1798 the first dock (12 acres in extent) was constructed at the terminus of the Glamorgan canal from Merthyr.

In 1830 he obtained the first act for the construction of a dock, which (now known as the West Bute dock) was opened in 1839 and measures (with its basin) DAacres.

The chief buildings are that containing the town hall and the grammar school (a foundation of 1547), the exchange, a theatre, and the customs house and dock offices.