Sentence examples for dockyard to from inspiring English sources

Balfour Beatty and Weir both moved higher after they sold their stakes in the dockyard to Babcock.

Chief executive Peter Rogers described the redundancies as regrettable but said the new contracts would enable the dockyard to face the future with confidence.

Meanwhile, we built up a conservation centre nearby in the dockyard to prepare many thousands of artefacts using tanks of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and vacuum freeze dryers.

(Why am I not surprised?) And, proving that all holiday-card texts are cliches, she nails down "the earliest known use of the phrase 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.' "It was in 1699, in a holiday letter from an English admiral at one naval dockyard to a storekeeper at another.

The parts are to be delivered by barge from Chatham Dockyard to the entrance of the eastern tunnels at Limmo Peninsula near Canning Town in east London.

The money will be used to expand the dockyard to ensure it is ready for the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales as well as the Type 45 destroyers which are based in Portsmouth.

This newly minted 50-mile cycling trail traces the route taken by timber felled in Alice Holt Forest and hauled to Portsmouth's dockyards to build the Tudor navy; sometimes country lanes, sometimes forest tracks, it breaks up into easy bite-sized chunks.

The Controller ordered the Director of Dockyards to plan for rebuilding Implacable between June 1953 and December 1956 even after the latter protested that even a limited modernisation would require about three-quarters of the structural work of the original plan and that the shortage of skilled workers (already insufficient for Victorious by herself) would delay work on both ships.

As an excellent and readable new edition edited by Janet Ing Freeman shows, Rylance tirelessly chronicled more than 650 eating houses (the word "restaurant" was obscure in 1815) from oyster rooms to boiled beef houses, dockyard taverns to coffeehouses, ancient coaching inns to London's first Indian restaurant.

After the battles, Benbow returned to Deptford to resume his duties as master attendant, spending a brief period at Portsmouth Dockyard helping to oversee repairs to the fleet.

After the conquest and the expulsion of the town's population, Ferdinand IV of Castile ordered the defences to be strengthened with the walls repaired, a keep constructed above the town and a dockyard (atarazana) to be built to house galleys.