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Example sentences for "shipyard"

Lexicographically close words:
shipwreck; shipwrecked; shipwrecks; shipwright; shipwrights; shipyards; shire; shires; shirife; shiriffe
  1. Donald was not getting ahead in the shipyard office.

  2. Thus the shipyard can work much faster than if the pieces were prepared at the yard.

  3. All the pieces for a ship are sent to the shipyard ready to be riveted in their proper places.

  4. In addition to the wharves this property includes the shipyard of the old-time Niagara Dock Company, whose launching slips for the many steamers which they constructed are still in evidence.

  5. John Hamilton, the iron plates being moulded on the Clyde and put together at the Niagara shipyard by James and Neil Currie.

  6. Rathbun Company, at Deseronto on the Bay of Quinte, there being then no other shipyard on the shores of Lake Ontario.

  7. Next below the Isle of Dogs are Poplar and Blackwall, now forming one town—observable for the shipyard of Messrs.

  8. The great shipyard of the Thames Company, late Messrs.

  9. Later in the year, he noted that his sloop had gone down to the shipyard at Swinyards.

  10. There was also a shipyard in Gloucester County owned by John Hudgens.

  11. Caleb Herbert was retained as the master builder of a shipyard on the Rappahannock River, and Reuben Herbert for such a yard on York River.

  12. The two vessels, Caswell and Washington, were built at the South Quay Shipyard on the Blackwater River near the North Carolina line.

  13. Ambercrombie destroyed the shipyard at Chickahominy including a large number of naval craft, among them an unfinished ship of 200 tons, and important warehouses.

  14. At Berkeley, a neighboring plantation on the James River, owned by Benjamin Harrison, there were extensive merchant mills and a large shipyard where vessels were built for the plantation.

  15. He wrote home that his cousins, the Walker Brothers, had a shipyard at Hampton, and were building ships of new white oak, well calculated for the West Indies trade.

  16. This last shipyard was discontinued at the suggestion of Thomas Jefferson in 1779 because of the enormous expense attending its support.

  17. A shipyard had been established on the Elizabeth River in 1621 by John Wood and work had been almost continuous, though at times very slow, throughout the seventeenth century.

  18. How many vessels were built or repaired at the Point Comfort shipyard is not known.

  19. Illustration: Seventeenth-Century Shipyard in England From the Science Museum, South Kensington, London.

  20. The time came for bringing the fifteen batteaux from the shipyard on the Muskingum, where Byle had heard the clatter of saw and hammer.

  21. The vessel was ready and that very morning had been brought from the shipyard to the landing.

  22. Fellows and Son, for the South American trade, was launched from their shipyard at Southtown, Great Yarmouth.

  23. A fine barque, classed A 1 at Lloyd's for fourteen years, named the Oleander, was launched from the shipyard of Mr. J.

  24. A fine barque of 410 tons, named the Egbert, was launched from the shipyard of Messrs.

  25. A vessel named the Ponda Chief, intended for trading between this country and Port Natal, was launched from the shipyard of Messrs.

  26. Until he was strong enough to go to the shipyard himself, he watched the work on the two-thousand-foot globular skeleton by screen, and conferred either in person or by screen with engineers and shipyard executives.

  27. Trask remembered him as an insufferable young twerp, but he seemed to be a good shipyard man.

  28. The shipyard at Rivington was finished, and now they had built the landing-legs of Harkaman's Corisande II, and were putting up the skeleton.

  29. Both ships ought to have a full overhaul, but we'll have to skip that till we have a shipyard of our own.

  30. Alex Gorram was grumbling that his shipyard was full of them; agitators stirring up trouble, trying to organize a strike to get rid of the robots.

  31. In the meantime, the shipyard had been laid out and was taking shape.

  32. The Englishmen arrived between the hamlet and the shipyard where the ship was building on the seventh of February, where he captured by means of his ship’s boat a sailor who was coasting along in a boat quite inapprehensive of any such danger.

  33. This shipyard may indeed be called the greatest shipyard in the world.

  34. They left the shipyard November 21, and reached Panay next day.

  35. When I saw them massed in one great multitude in and around that shipyard and on the steamboat wharf, I made merry cachinnation.

  36. When the sun rose the following morning it found Cap'n Bean's shipyard empty and little Walter and his flying machine gone.

  37. No, Odin Dock & Shipyard claim he's a political refugee and they won't give him up.

  38. The shipyard man and the chemical engineer weren't saying anything, but it had kicked them for a loss, too.

  39. The Odin Dock & Shipyard equipment had begun coming out; lorries picking up the wax that had been dumped back from the fire and wax that was being pulled off the piles, and material-handling equipment.

  40. It was painted with the emblem of the Hunters' Co-operative, but the three men on it looked like shipyard workers.

  41. They helped the shipyard men get it out, and then they all went to the Municipal Building.

  42. The spaceport wasn't part of Port Sandor, or even Fenris; the Odin Dock & Shipyard Company was the government there, and it was run honestly and efficiently.

  43. Odin Dock & Shipyard won't let you take people out of their spaceport without a fight.

  44. They were Odin Dock & Shipyard Company men, all former Federation Regular Army or Colonial Constabulary.

  45. The galleons were already in the shipyard when the heretical Corsairs again appeared on the coast with three ships.

  46. In the shipyard of Bagatas, which was established in the province of Camarines, the Mindanao enemy (whose worship is the law of Mahomet) made a sudden attack.

  47. Then they separated, six taking their course toward the shipyard of Mindoro, and the other six, returning on the very morning of Corpus Christi, entered the bay, and dropped anchor in the same place from which they had sailed.

  48. After resigning from the navy department, he became superintending constructor of the Cramps’ yard, Philadelphia, but soon after resigned that position and opened a shipyard of his own at Elizabeth, New Jersey.

  49. Once more at the shipyard the boys began to think of dinner.

  50. Our friends will be expecting us shortly, and it's quite a ways back to the shipyard where our boat is on the ways for repairs.

  51. Arrived at the shipyard Jack tossed the black a dollar saying that they were grateful for the help he had rendered them.

  52. I haven't served the papers yet, you know, so if you get the money to the shipyard people early in the morning, I'll hold off a while.

  53. In the excitement of rescuing their chums the matter of settling their bill at the shipyard had been crowded out of their minds.

  54. You know it's one of those big shipyard scows!

  55. Youall come with me while I fix these young rascals and then I want you to come back here and take that shipyard man's scow back to him and take that skiff back to the shipyard, too.

  56. When I got away from the chain gang, I went to the shipyard and asked for you.

  57. They hurriedly packed a bundle of food, borrowed one of the boats of the shipyard and started upstream to look for their chums.

  58. During the remainder of the day Jack, Tom and Frank were about the shipyard watching the carpenters at work on various vessels of small tonnage drawn up for repairs.

  59. As she passed the shipyard Charley whistled, "Bob White.

  60. Well, boys, it seems to me it would have been real easy to stop and pay your shipyard charges when you were coming back.

  61. A shipyard was set up on the banks of the St Charles river.

  62. The infant shipyard at Quebec was doing well.

  63. Mr. Arthurs had passed through the shipyard from apprenticeship to directorship: he had worked in this shop and in that, just as the men worked, and had learned more about shipbuilding than it seemed possible for any man to learn.

  64. They stayed so long in the shipyard that there was no time left for the visit to the linen mill, and so, when they had had tea, they set off to the Great Northern Railway station where Marsh was to catch his train to Dublin.

  65. He walked away from the place where he had imagined he had seen Marsh's face peering at him out of the water, and as he walked along the deck, he could hear the noise of hammering in the shipyard made by the men on the night-shift.

  66. He could see him now, just as he had stood in the shipyard that day when John Marsh and Henry had been with him, and he had watched the workmen pouring through the gates.

  67. Mr. Arthurs' immense energy and his devotion to his work and his extraordinary pride not only in the shipyard but in the men who worked in it had made a deep impression on Marsh and Henry.

  68. They never "worked along up" to the shipyard too often for me.

  69. It was a great day in the Spray shipyard when her new stem was set up and fastened to the new keel.

  70. I was only too glad to accept, for I had already found that I could not obtain work in the shipyard without first paying fifty dollars to a society, and as for a ship to command--there were not enough ships to go round.

  71. The shipyard was a depressing place, full of gaunt cranes, overhead gantries, grimy buildings, and huge corrugated-iron erections with tall chimneys which befouled and blotted out every vestige of the sky with their oily black smoke.

  72. Then they offered to sign an agreement covering all their shipyard employees if the organization of their steel plants was given up, feeling no doubt that the shipyard boom was only temporary.

  73. For the National Committee, John Fitzpatrick spurned this shameful trade, and the organization campaign went on--with the shipyard men getting their agreement later on just the same.

  74. He was over at our shipyard in Dunhaven, trying to get employment on the construction of submarine boats.

  75. After indulging in a second ice cream soda the submarine boys started down the street toward the Farnum shipyard where the Pollard boats were built.

  76. There were many questions fired at Joe and his friends by the shipyard men, but they had time to answer only a few.

  77. The two counterfeiters planned to make a big strike here with the shipyard workers.

  78. Soon the men from the shipyard surrounded the two men, one of whom had been designated by the sentence: "There's the ticket guy now.

  79. From the big shipyard poured hundreds of men.

  80. But a few months later the rioting broke out again, and in the early summer of 1917 there came a menacing strike of sailors and shipyard and dock laborers at Wilhelmshaven.

  81. Berlin has tardily followed the glorious example of the Kiel sailors, the Hamburg shipyard laborers and the soldiers and workingmen of various other states.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anchorage; armory; arsenal; basin; berth; boatyard; breakwater; brewery; bulkhead; dairy; distillery; dock; dockyard; embankment; factory; groin; harbor; haven; jetty; landing; mill; mint; mole; mooring; pier; plant; port; pottery; quay; refinery; road; sawmill; seaport; seawall; shipyard; slip; tannery; wharf; winery; yard