From Marseilles I proceeded to Toulon, the last of the marine dockyards I had to visit.
For instance, that of Spain employed us liberally, principally tor the equipment of the royal dockyards of Ferrol and Cartagena.
Capstans on dock walls in British government dockyardsare usually driven by hydraulic or air pressure, conveyed through pipes to small engines underneath the capstans.
In Ireland capital punishment may be inflicted for the same offences as in England, except offences under the Dockyards Protection Act 1772, and it is carried out in the same manner.
The Indian Government has dockyards at Bombay and Calcutta.
Private firms are relied upon for the construction of many ships down to an advanced stage, the government dockyards completing and equipping them for commission.
The Spanish dockyards are of considerable antiquity, but of diminishing importance.
The principal Italian state dockyards are Spezia, Naples and Venice, the first named being by far the most important.
But the director of dockyards is the admiralty official under whose instructions the work goes on, involving the employment and supervision of an army of artisans and labourers.
The caisson itself also serves as a very strong movable bridge, and therefore is often preferred at dockyards to dock gates.
The system of conducting business at the dockyards is analogous to that which prevails at the admiralty.
The arrangements for the administrative control of the dockyards have varied with those adopted for the regulation of the navy as a whole.
Forwood, and other standbacks on the Opposition side was the remark:--"I would rather have the rate of wages in dockyards regulated by trades unions than made the sport of party politicians and put up as a kind of Dutch auction.
Marshal Berwick burned the dockyards at Pasajes in Spain.
In 1864 he was sent by the Admiralty to America to visit the dockyards of the United States, and, at the end of that year, he went out to the Mediterranean as captain of the Victoria, flagship of Sir Robert Smart.
The dockyards were brought into far better order, and though corruption was not banished, it was much reduced.
Inspections of the fleet and the dockyards were established, and the corps of Marines was created in 1755.
In Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli the dockyards teemed with workmen busily engaged in learning the new build; and the honour, if such it be, of having taught them rests apparently between England and Flanders.
The foundries and dockyards of Algiers teemed with busy workmen.
The dockyards were disorganised; the effective force of the fleet was reduced; the reserve of stores was depleted.
The same reason explains why Government dockyards and arms factories are always managed so unsatisfactorily.
They had cut the main water supply of the garrison, and they had possessed themselves of important ground to the north of the old town, and their siege guns were able to render the dockyards and the harbor untenable for ships of war.
The naval dockyards were kept working night and day to prepare the reserve fleet for commission, and to be ready for the demands which an immediate outbreak of war might involve.
Traditions of bygone Dockyards naturally survived, and gave rise to controversy.
If in any of the Government Dockyards it is common for the actual length of a ship to remain an open question until the moment of construction, it should surely be made the subject of a question in Parliament!
Directly the Royal Sovereign crept into the Nore she was ordered round to Portsmouth, since the dockyards of Chatham and Sheerness were quite unable to cope with the work of refitting any but the least-damaged ships.
Everything of a buoyant nature that was in danger of taking fire had either been left at the home dockyards or ruthlessly thrown overboard.
I sought an interview from the Cannon Queen's consort about the visit he and his staff of experts had just paid to the great arsenals and dockyards of Great Britain.
We do not doubt that the dockyards are largely jobbed, and that the nation suffers considerable loss by a partial and nefarious system of private instead of public contracts.
He is the officer charged with keeping a record of expenditure at the dockyards and of supervising expense accounts.
The Naval Store Department is charged with the custody and issue of naval, as distinguished from victualling and ordnance stores, to be used in naval dockyards and establishments for the building, fitting and repairing of warships.
While the work of designing ships and preparing plans is in progress, the director of stores, the director of dockyards and other officials of that department concerned are making preparation for the work.
It deserves to be noticed, however, that a certain obscurity exists in regard to the relative duties of the director of naval construction and the director of dockyardstouching constructive works in the yards.
A great number of civil departments are directed by the controller, and his survey and supervision extend to the dockyards and building establishments of the fleet.
The director of dockyards replaced the surveyor of dockyards in 1885, at about which time the inspector of dockyard expense accounts was instituted.
In this department the programme for work in the dockyards is prepared, as well as certain sections of the navy estimates.
The building operations both in the dockyards and in private yards are therefore under his supervision.
Hitherto they would have scoffed at the suggestion that their own arsenals and dockyards were exposed to attack.
The dockyards of Nicholaieff are supplied with timber and wood from the Government of Ligtewski, which contains several large forests of fine trees.
A feverish activity began in all his dockyards and arsenals; press-gangs ranged the harbor cities and seized all available sailors, and in a few weeks the imperial marine was nearly doubled in ships, guns, and men.
The united French and Spanish fleets made a fine appearance in the accounts which reached the admiralty, and the activity of the French dockyards was alarming.
Its object was to destroy the ships and dockyards at Antwerp.
The conditions imposed by Sir Arthur Wellesley, Sir Home Popham, and Lieutenant-Colonel Murray were that the British should occupy the citadel and dockyards for six weeks, and take possession of the ships and naval stores.
What if the dockyards of Chatham should again be destroyed?
Yet the naval administration, in spite of his attempts to reform it, moved the contempt of men who were acquainted with the dockyards of France and Holland.
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