Dockyards Sentence Examples

Each arrondissement is divided into sousarrondissements, having their centres in the great commercial ports, but this arrangement is purely for the embodiment of the men of the Inscription Maritime, and has nothing to do with the dockyards as naval arsenals.

It contains models of the principal dockyards and fortifications of the British empire, naval models of all dates, and numerous specimens of weapons of war from the remotest times to the present day.

The ships of Greece and Turkey are largely built of it, but it has not always proved satisfactory in English dockyards.

With the exception of the dockyards and fortifications there are few objects of interest.

Cartagena is fortified, and possesses an arsenal and naval dockyards.

Naval preparations went on apace at all the dockyards, and numbers of flat-bottomed boats were built or repaired at the northern harbours.

Evidently then the Spanish dockyards and warships (when vigorously organized) were to count for much in the schemes for assuring complete supremacy in the Mediterranean and the ultimate overthrow of the British and Turkish empires, which he then had closely at heart.

As he grew older his father took him on all his rounds, reviewing troops, inspecting studs, foundries, dockyards and granaries.

During the tsar's first foreign tour, Menshikov worked by his side in the dockyards of Amsterdam, and acquired a thorough knowledge of colloquial Dutch and German.

In the penury of the dockyards Holmes could not be provided with the force he was promised, and the enterprise was but partially successful.

The Germans in addition had the inestimable advantage of having been in commission over two years and being in a state of prime gunnery efficiency, whereas the " Good Hope " and " Monmouth " were both 3rd Fleet ships, which had been lying idle in the dockyards, manned entirely with reserve men on the outbreak of war.

The rise of London as a port, the prohibition of the export of wool, the loss of the Winchester market after the suppression of the monastic institutions, and the withdrawal of the court led to the gradual decline of trade from the 16th century onwards until railway facilities and the opening of new dockyards gave Southampton the position it holds to-day.

Among other public buildings are the naval hospital, the British seaman's hospital (established in 1867), the civic hospital, admiralty (founded 1785), arsenal, dockyards and foundries, school of marine engineering, the cathedral of St Andrew, and the English church.

A very large proportion of the inhabitants are sailors, and large numbers of artisans are employed in the dockyards.

The navy department has charge of the dockyards and vessels of war; and the post office department directs the postal system, including the railway mail service.

Considerable quantities of larch timber are imported into Britain for use in the dockyards, in addition to the large home supply.

He accompanied the young tsar abroad on his first foreign tour, and worked by his side in the dockyards of Saardam.

The chief command was at the same time separated from the administration and vested in a naval officer, who controls the movements of the fleet, its personnel and training, while the maintenance of the arsenals and dockyards, victualling and clothing and all matters immediately affecting the materiel, fall within the province of the secretary of state.

The time allowed in the English government dockyards for the natural process of seasoning for hard woods such as oak is, for pieces 24 in.

Portsmouth proper may be distinguished as the garrison town; Portsea as the naval station with the dockyards; Landport is occupied chiefly by the houses of artisans; and Southsea is a residential quarter and a favourite watering-place.

There was a considerable trade in wool and wine, and the building of the dockyards by Henry VII.

Its roadstead is sheltered by Madura, and it has important dockyards.

The tree is of very rapid growth, but produces good timber, much used in southern dockyards, and very durable, though less strong than that of P. sylvestris; the heart-wood is of a brownish-tint.

The timber is used in Spanish dockyards, but opinions vary as to its quality.

To the metropolitan police also are assigned the control and guardianship of the various naval dockyards and arsenals.

The dockyards were brought into far better order, and though corruption was not banished, it was much reduced.

Inspections of the fleet and the dockyards were established, and the corps of Marines was created in 1755.

Whilst the Spanish fleet was destroyed before Syracuse by Admiral Byng, the intrigue of the Spanish ambassador Cellamare with the duke of Maine to exclude the family of Orleans from the succession on Louis XV.s death was discovered and repressed; and Marshal Berwick burned the dockyards at Pasajes in Spain.

To make the building of warships more convenient, Henry decided to build two dockyards on the Thames in 1513.

The old naval dockyards used by the British have now converted to operate as a commercial shipyard.