"Dry dock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Catherine, chapel of monastery of Sao Francisco in Lisbon, foundation of Arsenal Chapel; a balcony at Santos, and divers other lesser works. Then a door, window, well balustrade, garden repairs; work in pest house; stone buildings at the arsenal for a dry dock for the Indian ships; the work he has executed at Thomar, as well as the work he has done at Alcobaca and Batalha; besides he made a bastion at Mazagao so strong,' etc.—Raczynski's Les ...
— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson
... brig had a distinct list to port, and that she was motionless; not with the buoyant motionlessness of a ship afloat in a calm, but with the absolute absence of all movement characteristic of a ship in dry dock, ...
— Dick Leslie's Luck - A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... chief article of export is coal from the neighbouring collieries, the other leading exports being ale, whisky, glass and manufactured goods. The imports comprise timber, grain, iron, linseed and flax. The docks, accessible only at high water, include a wet basin and a dry dock. Amongst the principal buildings are the fine Gothic parish church, with a spire 200 ft. high; the town hall, including the free public library, from designs by Alfred Waterhouse, R.A., the gift of Mr J. Thomson Paton; the county and municipal ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... "And this floating dry dock," continued the officer, "will be roofed over and its contents kept secret. A short distance from the Taya Islands, she will be shucked of her shell and take to the water. No one will know ...
— Boy Scouts in a Submarine • G. Harvey Ralphson
... were asked for by the United States government on pumping machinery, to remove the water from a dry dock for vessels of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various
... The boat is good for many a trip yet, though it is true, as you know, that she is to go into dry dock for overhauling on her return. Has ...
— Story of Chester Lawrence • Nephi Anderson
... "don't you worry about Zeke Bassett, nor anything else. You just lay in dry dock and let Parker here overhaul your runnin' riggin' and get you fit for sea. That's ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln |
