Dockyards [noun]

He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

Scotland had not a single ship of the line, nor a single dockyard where such a ship could be built.

On Nat's return to the dockyard, he delighted Lippincott with the news of the exchange that they were to make.

As soon as she had picked up moorings Nat landed at the dockyard, and, proceeding to the admiral's, reported himself there.

Nat at once hurried off, while Captain Painton went into the office of another of the officials of the dockyard.

With the completion of the new dockyard works the value of Gibraltar as a naval base has greatly increased.

The boatswain (Roger Winket) was afterwards rewarded with three hundred pounds a year, as master-attendant of Woolwich-dockyard.

It may have been their outcries, but I believe it was the ringing of the dockyard bell for the dinner-hour, which awoke me.

When a certain amount of order was restored it was discovered that a big dockyard tug was settling down by the head.

Towards the end of the month of September the skeleton of the vessel, which was to be rigged as a schooner, lay in the dockyard.