WordNet
n. a military shipyard [syn: navy yard]
Usage examples of "naval shipyard".
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, part of the Norfolk Naval Base complex, wasn't exactly a garden spot, but it was where most of the crew's families lived, and that made it attractive enough.
With luck, no one would notice that there were now two Boghammer 11s, especially at night and within the bustle and confusion of a major naval shipyard facility.
Last assignment for Royal Navy was engineering director of the Grimsby Royal Naval shipyard.
No such threats revealed themselves, and the drone brought its forward progress gradually to halt, fifteen light-seconds from the naval shipyard known as Eroica Station.
Lorn, in particular, is a relatively important secondary naval shipyard.
Over the next year and a half she underwent conversion from a forgotten rust bucket into an undercover electronic spy at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington.
USS Ogden was a new ship, or nearly so, having emerged from the New York Naval Shipyard's building ways in 1964.
Haygood put in, as enthusiastically as if the idea of a naval shipyard had been his own brainchild from the beginning, and Simpson nodded without looking away from Schwanhausser.
The Transportation Directorate used him on high-priority transport like this load of parts for the naval shipyard at Nantes.
Buried deep amid transmission requests and routine permissions was a request from a Naval shipyard for high-level permissions access.
He had friends who worked in a naval shipyard there and they thought they could get him a civilian job.
Most of the seats at the long bar were occupied by large males, who looked as if they worked in the naval shipyard, Janice thought, or possibly as stevedores on the Philadelphia waterfront.