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Example sentences for: dockyard
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They wanted to create a “Gibraltar of the West” and set about building a large naval dockyard on Ireland Island, at the opposite end of the archipelago from the main population center of St. George’s.
An intriguing wreck lies at Spanish Point, part of the floating dock (the second largest in the world) that once sat at the Royal Naval Dockyard.
The fort was begun in 1869 to protect the land route to the naval dockyard at the end of the island.
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.
The Bermuda Pottery (at the Royal Naval Dockyard) produces a number of patterns, several with island themes.