Sentence examples for dockyard from from inspiring English sources

Councillor Rodney Chambers, leader of Medway Council, added: "Chatham's Dockyard and its defences have an unrivalled and illustrious history and is the world's most complete example of an historic dockyard from the age of sail and early age of steam.

The purpose of the barracks and fort was the defend the dockyard from landward attack and to this end there were rifle loops in the walls for nearly 700 muskets.

She was given a refit at Chatham Dockyard from 3 September to 23 October to prepare the ship for service on the China Station.

Exactly when this conversion was performed on UB-16 is not reported, but UB-12 was at the dockyard from November 1916 to January 1917.

In the 1860s, a ring of Palmerston forts was constructed around the outskirts of Devonport, to protect the dockyard from attack from any direction.

UB-12 was at the dockyard from November 1916 to January 1917, and it is likely the boat was converted during this timeframe.

From the completion of the dockyard until 1960 Sheerness was one of the bases of the Nore Command of the Royal Navy, which was responsible for protecting British waters in the North Sea.

Meanwhile, plans have been unveiled for a new 36,000-seater stadium to be build on reclaimed land in the city's dockyards from 2009.

He rose to the rank of chief petty officer in the RAN and later shifted to the naval dockyard police, from which he retired in 1956.

Among other things, the two of them explain the new City Deal signed with the coalition government in 2014, which will bring in tens of millions of pounds of investment, and transfer dockyard land from the Ministry of Defence to the council, which hopes to create 1,200 new jobs in the maritime sector.

The store has searchlight fixtures recovered from the Suez Canal, sewing machines from Chatham Dockyard, a loom from a mill in Sheffield.