Sentence examples for shore facilities from inspiring English sources

However, an important obstacle to building the largest vessels is the lack of suitable shore facilities for them.

By 1880 the Navy only had 48 ships in commission, 6,000 men, and the ships and shore facilities were decrepit but Congress saw no need to spend money to improve them.

Willaumez was fortunate to have collected this information before attempting to anchor in Table Bay: Popham had ordered all ships and shore facilities to continue to fly the Dutch flag in the hope that enemy ships would be lured within range of the port's gun batteries.

This was the last significant ship-to-ship action in the Adriatic, and its conclusion allowed British raiders to strike against coastal convoys and shore facilities unopposed, seizing isolated islands and garrisons with the aid of an increasingly nationalistic Illyrian population.

Other claims, less widely heard, include a belief that Sydney was not at action stations and thus not prepared for Kormorans attack, distress calls from the cruiser were heard by Australian shore facilities but ignored, and that survivors were captured then executed by the Japanese.

The innumerable academic institutions with shore facilities for study of the marine environment (private ones such as the Duke University Marine Laboratory and public ones such as Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington) have provided foci of research and knowledge.

The challenge is precisely to optimize their capital costs to compete for an offshore installation against a shore facility.

Not only does there need to be a thorough and public investigation into this incident, the transfer of asylum seekers to off-shore facilities should immediately cease.

Third, we present a design for systems of (two) coupled nonlinear first-order hyperbolic PDEs, which is motivated by slugging flow dynamics in petroleum production in off-shore facilities.

As an example, the Massachusetts Sierra Club opposes gas pipeline expansion because "The pipelines are being built to take fracked gas to off-shore facilities in the U.S. and Canada for export". Like many gas pipeline opponents, they apparently think that natural gas is homeopathic, that is, the methane molecules have a memory of how they were produced.

A recent report from the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Office provides very detailed information of personnel exposures from living and working in nuclear submarines and on nuclear ships, as well as working in the on-shore facilities that produced fuel and materials for the Nuclear Navy such as nuclear propulsion plants and nuclear component engineering plants.