Please can you tell me the way to the Docks where the P and O steamers come in?
Even if he spent his majority in the London docks he would not turn tail.
Louis conducted him to a cell, now choaked with docks and nettles, which had once been the penitentiary of a King.
I guess it's dedocks or a box fer mine t'-night," he added with a sigh.
But all was still save for the whistles of the boats on the East River, for the factory ran down to the edge of the docks on the water front.
The old town, which was formerly protected on the north and west by a wall running from the Hull to the Humber, is now wholly insular, as a line of wet-docks occupies the site of the old fortifications.
The recent formation of quays anddocks of corresponding dimensions, affords to this harbour every facility for vessels of heavy burthen.
When Millwall Dockswere built, the City challenged the docks on the matter of their privilege, and the case went to the Law Courts.
Cherbourg being exclusively a naval station, the docks all belonged to the Government, and the Government would have preferred not to dock and repair a belligerent ship.
There are no private docks in Cadiz, and I was obliged, therefore, to go into one of the governmentdocks for repairs.
He also made in Nidaros many and large dry-docks of the best material, and well timbered.
The ship-docks which King Eystein the Elder had constructed in the merchant town of Nidaros, and which had been exceedingly expensive, were also burnt this winter, together with some good vessels belonging to King Inge.
New docks are established where a new cut has been made to serve them.
On the south side are the Tyne Docks of the North-Eastern Railway Company, which have a water space of fifty acres, and are employed equally for coals and general merchandise.
He also designed and constructed the first docks at Plymouth.
It was Dummer who also designed and constructed the first docks at Plymouth.
Edmund Dummer contrived a simple and ingenious method of pumping water from dry docks below the level of low tide, which enabled Portsmouth for the first time to possess a dry dock capable of taking in a first-rate man-of-war.
The great docks along the front of the splendid harbor stand unused, the warehouses upon them molder.
Here, then, is a masterful new town seeking new points of advantage over its rivals, piercing canals through to its backyard lakes so that it may eventually be as completely surrounded by docks and shipping as are New York and Boston.
And the docks along her waterfront grow rusty with disuse.
The construction of the docks was indeed a work of immense magnitude, and the contrivers of the plan found that there were very great difficulties to be surmounted before it could be carried into effect.
They remained in the docks for more than two hours, and then went home by one of the little steamers on the river.
It may seem surprising that Rollo should be so ready to go and see the docks before he knew at all what they were.
I suppose they can't warp any where but in docks and harbors," said Rollo.
Then you can compare the field with some one or other of the docks according to the number of acres assigned to it in the above table.
The place that they chose for the docks was at a little distance from the river, below the city.
One day Mr. George told Rollo that before leaving London he wished very much to go and see the London docks and the shipping in them.
Accordingly, about fifty years ago, the merchants of London began to form companies for the purpose of excavating docks for them.
I don't know how seamen could manage their vessels in docks and harbors without this process of warping.
This agent is a man who is well acquainted with the docks and the brokers, and knows where they keep the specimens.
Now, Rollo's chief interest in going to see the docks was the anticipation of witnessing scenes and incidents of this and other kinds; but Mr. George expected to be most interested in the docks themselves.
The occurrence took place just as the men from the docks were going home to dinner; and so it happened that there was an unusually large number of people near at the time of the accident.
About eight hundred such shiploads as that which Rollo and Mr. George saw in the London Docks arrive in New York alone every year.
At the close of the second enquiry Mr. Lyster, the engineer to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, completely gave the Dock Board case away.
I sometimes think that our City Fathers apparently forget that our docks and our commerce are the life-blood of Liverpool.
We were obliged to show the troops; the cavalry paraded the line ofdocks for two or three days, producing an excellent effect.
There is no branch of the public service of which Liverpool people are more proud than the administration of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
In old days the difficulty of getting to and from the various docks was greatly increased by the crowded state of the adjacent streets.
The Dock Committee built the sea wall of the Canada dock some time before the docks were constructed.
Birkenhead had, however, powerful influence in Parliament, and stoutly opposed any extension of the Liverpool docks, contending that the Birkenhead docks had not had fair play, and could accommodate the surplus trade of Liverpool.
The old docks have had to be remodelled to give sufficient depth of water and quay space for the larger vessels now employed, and special docks have had to be constructed for the Atlantic steamship trade.
He used to tell how indefatigably he worked to secure the extension of the docks in a northerly direction, how he asked Lord Derby to present the Bootle shore to the Dock Board, urging that it would be greatly to the gain of the Derby family.
The present generation scarcely know that the docks were up to 1857 administered by a Committee of the Corporation.
One of the first docks constructed on this newly-acquired land was the Bramley Moore, so named after the chairman.
These docks had been constructed by a private company, and were insolvent and a hopeless failure.
It was too nerve-racking to begin with; and also, as a girl, I could not go down myself to the docks and arrange matters at first hand.
The Trafford Road bridge at the docks at Manchester is the heaviest swing bridge on the canal; being of extra width, it weighs 1800 tons.
After its opening considerable reductions were made in the railway rates of carriage and the charges at the Liverpool docks in order to meet the lower cost of conveyance by shipping passing up it.
The total amount of excavation in the canal, docks and subsidiary work amounted to over 54 million cub.
The total rise to the level of the docks at Manchester from the ordinary level of the water in the tidal portion of the canal below Latchford locks is 60 ft.
At the docks we saw our floating home, His Majesty's Transport Antenor.
Back on the docks we saw our next floating hotel, HMT Aronda; she was much more modern, lighter in build and with finer lines than the old Antenor.
Walking back to our billets one could see some damage and some of the houses in Fort Austin Avenue were burning but the city centre and the docks area bore the brunt of the action.
Docks at Heysham, Lancashire; and steamship services to Belfast, &c.
This company owns the great docks at Southampton, and maintains passenger services from that port to the Channel Islands, Havre, St Malo and Cherbourg.
There is more to be had, so far as earthworks are concerned, in road approaches than railway cuttings, and in docks than either.
I made him do the spy business right round our end of the docks I was then on, and also on railway work.
Luke Roome was afterwards assistant alderman and for several years leased the docks and slips of the city.
Meetings were held at his house for the transaction of business of various kinds connected with the city, such as auditing accounts, leasing the ferry, leasing the docks and slips, etc.
And when Carrie came, several details concerning the life led by her and the supposed Mrs. Higgs in the house by the docks came to light, and the last remains of the mystery were cleared away.
She has nothing with which she can get rid of the water, and there are no docks near.
For some reason the width and measures of the docks are considered a secret, and do not find a place in books of naval inquiry, so that no one remembers the measures.
What was my surprise, when I went to the proper authorities, to find that we should not be allowed to light up the Liverpool docks at night, or to have fires on them.
Their hoary customs did not seem so sacred then, and they ended by throwing a complete somersault, and granting us full permission to light up the Liverpool docks at night.
This was to say very plainly to the dock board that unless we could have fires and lights on the docks we would take the shipping to other ports.
Thence arose its very ancient relations with Caere, which was to Etruria what Rome was to Latium, and accordingly became Rome's most intimate neighbour and commercial ally.
Great lumber-docks on one side, main trunk-line railroads on the other.
And then our giant purchases are brought by large lake steamers to our docks and unloaded directly into our yard.
In the aggregate, the docks cover 404 acres, or about two thirds of a square mile.
The docks are built of hewn stone, the oldest of a perishable sandstone, but the newer of granite.
The river is navigable to Carlisle Bridge at the centre of the city, and from the mouth of the river up to the bridge it has good docks and wharves.
These docks and landing-places extend five miles on the Liverpool side of the river, and two miles on the Birkenhead side.
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