dock-yard

I suggested that he might go to a dock-yard and work, as

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

Mount Edgecumbe, the sea is bounded by land on the other side, and, though there is there the grandeur of a fleet, there is also the impression of there being a dock-yard, the circumstances of which are not agreeable.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

By skill and persistence and bodily strength he had compassed a curve his father had declared impossible without a dock-yard.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Blonde, refitted, thoroughly overhauled at Portsmouth, and pronounced by the dock-yard people to be the fastest and soundest corvette afloat, and in every way a credit to the British navy.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

“It is, however, expected that those donkeys at the dock-yard will recommend her to be fitted with two brass howisyers.”

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

What navy the Maroquines have, is still laid up here, but the dock-yard is now nearly deserted, and the few remaining ships are unserviceable.

Travels in Morocco 2003

Concluding, therefore, that it was not consistent with the service for a resident commissioner, who held only a civil situation, to hoist a broad pendant, the moment that he had anchored he sent an order to the captain of the LATONA to strike it, and return it to the dock-yard.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Supposing you start from Cowes, as being opposite Southampton, the Route will bring you round to Ryde; where you cross to Portsmouth, and having gone over the fortifications, the dock-yard, and Nelson's ship, return by one or other of the rail-roads.

Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. George Brannon

Portsmouth; the former an important mercantile port and fashionable watering-place; and the latter, the first naval station in the kingdom -- its marine treasures too thrown open gratuitously to public inspection: and what curiosity can afford a Briton more gratification, than to visit such a dock-yard, and pace the deck of the very ship in which _Victory_ crowned the last moments of the immortal Nelson?

Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. George Brannon

Saw a prodigious quantity of guns to be "let loose" in the dock-yard, to which I was admitted as a great privilege.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various