Ian Rankin

My father worked in a grocery store. When the grocery chain went into administration, he eventually got a job in the naval dockyard in an office preparing the charts for the boats and the submarines before they headed out.

Scottish Writer

Alison Owen

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

English Producer

Alcaeus

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Greek Poet

Christopher Buckley

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

American Novelist

Dockyard refers specifically to waterfront facilities that deal with ships and maritime activity.

Maritime Activity

Unlike a simple storage area, a dockyard is a place of active work on ships, including construction and repair.

Not Just Storage

Dockyards are industrial areas and may not be accessible to the public without permission.

Dockyard

Maritime Activity

Not Just Storage

Industrial Setting

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