TTCTTWa place where ships are repaired or built 船坞,修船厂;造船厂
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dockyard• Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash, which was chosen as the site for a RoyalNavalbase and dockyard.• The site was used by the Royal Navy for years to dumpblueasbestos and other hazardousmaterials from ships and dockyards.• She had whispered her own last goodbye at a Liverpool dockyardgate, though she had not known it.• And then there are all the seasidetowns and the dockyard towns, about which I have said nothing.• Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife.• How good that future is will depend in part on the performance of the dockyard, which is competing right now.