dry-docks

Report of the Secretary of the Navy, communicating Copies of contracts for the construction of dry-docks, basins and railways at Kittery, Philadelphia, and Pensacola, and for a floating sectional dock at San Francisco. by United States.

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Blasted dry-docks, charcoal ribs of warehouses, cylindrical chunks of submarine that never got assembled, go ripping by in the darkness.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The term caisson is sometimes applied to flat air-tight constructions used for raising vessels out of water for cleaning or repairs, by being sunk under them and then floated; but these floating caissons are more commonly known as pontoons, or, when air-chambers are added at the sides, as floating dry-docks.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Where Fulton had built his first steamboat fifty years before huge yellow dry-docks now rose.

The Kirk on Rutgers Farm Frederick Br��ckbauer

The city, with a population of nearly 14,000, has a large lumber trade, ship-yards, dry-docks, saw and flour mills.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

The eye can see the three main basins, cut out of the rock, with an area of fifty-five acres, which forms the naval harbor and to which are connected dry-docks; the yards where the largest ships in the French navy are constructed; magazines and the various workshops required for an arsenal of the French navy.

The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman

Today it is Kiel with its ships, shipyards, and dry-docks; tomorrow, Krupps; and so on until they will have to stop fighting for the lack of munitions of war.

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

The dry-docks are, in winter, a singular spectacle.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

In the course of an hour not one of the German ships could be seen above the water, and Edestone, with none of his usual kindness of heart and sympathy for others, leaving to their fate the dead and dying that filled the sea beneath them, gave the orders to destroy the shipyards and dry-docks before it was too dark.

L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

Contractors, declaring it impossible to complete the Admiralty plans before the fall of 1917, completed them by July, 1916, and huge dry-docks, wharves and workshops stand now where the sea held dominion in August, 1914.

The War Mobilization of Great Britain 1917