Sentence examples for ship dismantling from inspiring English sources

The bride, 32, graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke and received a doctorate in economics from M.I.T. Her parents, Gitanjali and Davy Das, live in Pipavav, India, where the bride's father is the president of the Pipavav Ship Dismantling Company and her mother is a primary-school teacher who established Tiny Tots, a nursery school.

The construction yard closed in 1967, with only repair work and ship dismantling sustaining business until the yards were demolished in the late 1980s to make room for a paper and timber storage area.

In 2011 Dutch ships dismantled the remains of three British cruisers sunk in 1914.

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In practice these rules however don't mean much, as two thirds of ships dismantled on Asian beaches do not carry the European flag.

They befriend the ship dismantler, the pianist and the pigeon lady, and follow the botanist into the Oronsay's cavernous hold, where he shows them the treasure trove of vegetation he's transporting across the Indian Ocean, the Arabian and Red Seas, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

His strange dinner companions are a source of endless fascination: a lovelorn botanist whose artificially lit garden deep in the hold produces every poison known to man; a narcoleptic woman traveling with 30 pigeons; a pianist who knows "confusing and often obscene lyrics from songs"; and a "ship dismantler" who can explain the awesome engineering of their boat.

This week the captain of the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Miguel Ángel Martínez Hernández, revealed that the ship was dismantled in 2010 and 2011, and that its scrap steel was sent to a smelter in the northern city of Monterrey.

After the Barbadian sloop's tackle was used to careen the Revenge, the ship was dismantled for timber, and the remains were then burned.

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In Turkey and China, ships are dismantled in a more environmentally friendly way.