Sentence examples for dockyard from inspiring English sources

It was begun in 1743 but, with the new steam-powered ships needing less attention, the dockyard fell into disuse and closed in 1889.

The fright began on Asian markets on Sunday when Standard Life shares fell by 4%, or £400m, while shares in the engineering firms Babcock International – which runs civilian operations at Faslane submarine base and Rosyth naval dockyard – dropped 4.2%, or £233m, and Glasgow-based Weir Group fell by 1.8%, or £100m.

Mind you, the link between the dockyard and Nelson is a tad tenuous.

Sportingly, after the restoration of the dockyard in the 50s, the Antigua tourist board decided a famous title was needed and Nelson's Dockyard was born.

While the large yellow cranes of the Harland & Wolff dockyard remain as a reminder of the city's shipbuilding heritage, much of the rest of Belfast looks as if the recession has largely passed it by.

Sir Alex was well rewarded, too; he named his mansion Fairfields, after the dockyard where his father once laboured.Sir Alex's success was based on his enthusiastic embrace of globalisation, something too many people in Labour are still uncomfortable with.

That triggered a series of explosions that resulted in the submarine sinking and, according to some reports, the launch of two torpedoes that struck other vessels (including another submarine) in the dockyard.

It is redeveloping former dockyard buildings in Plymouth, the vast Manningham Mills in Bradford and Dunlop's former tyre store in Birmingham, among other schemes.Another plan for Manchester's inner suburbs, likely to cost about £200m, is for 25 acres on the east side of the city centre.

Cospicua, Maltese Bormla, town, eastern Malta, one of the Three Cities (the others being Senglea and Vittoriosa), at the head of Dockyard Creek, just south of Valletta across Grand Harbour.

At Dockyard Road, relatives of the missing cried and held onto one another as the heavy machinery lifted away the heaviest slabs of concrete.

In 1690 the Royal Dockyard was begun on the eastern bank of the Tamar, and the town of Plymouth Dock (renamed Devonport in 1824) was founded.