An area with docks and equipment for repairing and maintaining naval ships.
the historic naval dockyard in Portsmouth
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- Ron had worked in the naval dockyards as an engineer.
- The ship was immobile in the naval dockyard at Singapore.
- In his gardens on the edge of the naval dockyards at Deptford, he laid out complex arrangements of the most exotic trees and plants.
- He had a special responsibility for expanding the naval dockyard at Bombay.
- The former naval dockyard covered 400 acres and was one of the Royal Navy's main facilities for several hundred years until it closed in 1984.
- He returned to England in 1970, working at Devonport Naval Dockyard before deciding to become a full-time writer.
- The establishment of a naval dockyard on the Portsmouth side of the harbour was probably the key factor in the development of the Gosport area.
- The appointment could lead to the loss of more than 1,000 jobs at the naval dockyard near Edinburgh.
- The naval dockyard was small but beautifully equipped, with at least 10,000 tons of coal on hand at any time.
- Plymouth was rebuilt and retains one of the few surviving naval dockyards in the UK.