Then in the small hours they will slip into dock, and no one but the regular dockyard hands will know that they are there.

" "You have stopped all leave on the battle-cruisersthe real ones, I meanbut what about the dockyard men," inquired Froissart.

The dockyard people are wellnigh out of their wits with the pressure put upon them, and we are ordered to be ready to sail in a week.

Then it was perceived that to fortify the dockyard ports in the mother country afforded very little protection to the outlying portions of the empire.

We began by fortifying the great dockyard portson the sea side against a hostile fleet, on the land side against hostile troops.

One may muzzle the Press, but no muzzle yet devised can close the mouths of sailormen and their friends in dockyard towns.

I don't want wives and families and neighbours to come smelling round those dockyard gates.

He got together a meeting of dockyard workmen, and asked her to speak to them.