dockyard

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Sixteen are stored in Plymouth dockyard, but there is no plan for them to be scrapped there, so if the pilot is successful, that work is likely to be carried out in Fife.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

A historic dockyard has been transformed into a "world-class centre" for wind, wave and tidal power projects following a £60m upgrade.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024

In May the vessel finally left the Devonport dockyard where it had undergone a seven-and-a-half-year refit.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023

Solih insisted that the Indian military’s presence in the Maldives was only to build a dockyard under an agreement between the two governments and that his country’s sovereignty won’t be violated.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2023

In Amsterdam, he’ll stay with another of his father’s brothers, Jan, the director of the naval dockyard.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman