A row over British pension payments to 6,000 Spaniards who lost their jobs at Gibraltar's Royal Navy dockyards when Franco closed the border in 1969 has been settled.
It is courting Chinese sovereign-wealth funds to develop Liverpool's derelict northern dockyards.
(The risk is that growth will prove more vandalistic than poverty: UNESCO, the UN's culture and conservation body, is worried that the dockyards development will mar Liverpool's world heritage-listed waterfront).The Liverpool brand is clearly a tricky, if appealing, proposition.
Most explicit is Plutarch, who, after a personal visit to Alexandria, explained that "Caesar was forced to repel the danger by using fire, which spread from the dockyards and destroyed the Great Library".
The city's principal occupations are trade, citrus fruit industries, the manufacture of chemicals, pharmaceutical products, foodstuffs and preserves, and the operation of the port and dockyards.
From about 1800 he worked on extensive drainage projects in the Lincolnshire fens; constructed or improved harbours, including Wick, Grimsby, Holyhead, and Hull; built the London and East and West India docks on the Thames; improved naval dockyards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Sheerness; and began the breakwater that shelters Plymouth Sound.
Under the Tudors, in the 16th century, when defense of Britain's shores became a preoccupation, coastal forts were built (e.g., at Deal), and naval dockyards were established at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham and Sheerness.
From the 15th century until 1984 Chatham had one of Britain's major naval dockyards.
As soon as Tsar Peter I the Great returned from working in the dockyards of Amsterdam and London in 1697 98, he began requiring his princes to shave their beards.
These attacks, which were aimed against factories, rail depots, dockyards, bridges, and dams and against cities and towns themselves, were intended to both destroy Germany's war industries and to deprive its civilian population of their housing, thus sapping their will to continue the war.
It was founded in 1626 by the grand master of the Hospitallers (Knights of Malta), Antoine de Paule, and it remained a small village until the late 19th century, when it grew rapidly as a residential district for workers from the adjacent Grand Harbour dockyards.
