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Example sentences for: dockyard
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The Royal Naval Dockyard
In summer, cruise ships dock at the small port outside the main harbor wall, providing a good picture of how the working dockyard must have looked when it was home to British naval vessels.
Postwar, the British military presence dwindled, and the main sections of the dockyard were closed in 1951.
Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.
Starting in 1824, Britain sent convicts to Bermuda to supplement the slave labor working on the dockyard project.
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