laid-up
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Storing and maintaining Britain's 19 laid-up nuclear submarines has cost taxpayers nearly £16m over the last five years, it has emerged.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2015
The Maritime Commission, launching a merchant ship every seven days, prepared to sell the British 15 of its laid-up fleet of 64 for $3,010,800; asked bids on 24 more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Means were ready for the seizure and sale of the 143 laid-up refugee ships of conquered European nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soundings were taken in seven fathoms, and when all had been made snug, the vessel was secured, laid-up in harbour—a shelter which she was destined never to quit—at any rate, not as a “commissioned” ship.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by William Henry Giles Kingston
