Shipyard features

Usage examples of drydocks.

On one side of the lake, ramps and large drydocks stood, a shipbuilding and repair site now idle.

The pilots guided us past the empty drydocks, toward a small pier at the northern end of the lake.

But he removed his sunglasses after a moment and stared at us owlishly, then studied the drydocks south of us, the western shore of the lake, the pier.

And yet I have managed by drumming to search the timber port, with all its driftwood lurching in the bights or caught in the rushes, and, with less difficulty, the launching ways of the Schichau shipyard and the Klawitter shipyard, and the drydocks, the scrap-metal dump, the rancid coconut stores of the margarine factory, and all the hiding places that were ever known to me in those parts.

McCaulkin, at least, could reliably be counted on to get good value for what he spent from the purse, taking only the traditional five-percent kickback, and with a new load of good black oak just in, McCaulkin would soon be far more busy supervising the work in the drydocks than he would in counting his graft.

Warehouses, cranes, bridges, 3-1/2 miles of wharves, quays, locks, drydocks, rolling stock—and, unbelievably, even the all-important electrically controlled sluice gates, in full working order—had been seized.

We still don't know who they are, or who is providing them with bases and repair facilities, drydocks and that kind of thing.

We still don’t know who they are, or who is providing them with bases and repair facilities, drydocks and that kind of thing.