This army, under Marshal Oyama, had been formed in September and at first sent to Chemulpo as a support to the forces under Yamagata; but its chief task was the siege and capture of the Chinese fortress, dockyard and arsenal of Port Arthur.
After the loss of Port Arthur, China possessed no dockyard which could dock vessels over 3000 tons.
I was returning myself, after dark, in the ferry-boat plying between the Dockyard and Hamilton, when there were four German officers on the bridge.
St. George's to the Dockyard is very difficult and complicated, though I imagine that, with modern guns, a ship could lie outside the reefs and shell the islands to pieces.
Victorious" in March, 1916, as accommodation ship and workshop for theDockyard Staff and workmen, the officers and men experienced considerable discomfort.
Piraeus had been constructed with a number of slabs bearing inscriptions, which, on examination, turned out to be the inventories of the ancient dockyard of the Piraeus.
He was standing one day near the dockyard foreman's house, when the dinner bell rang, and just at the same time a servant came out with a piece of bread for Toby.
When near the dockyard steps, a great log of wood used to be pitched out of the boat, and Nero sent after it.
They took advantage of the opening already made on their last excursion to form a practicable road, which they named the Far West Road, and the trees were carried to the Chimneys, where the dockyard was established.
Besides, he was ably seconded by Pencroft, who, having worked for several years in a dockyard in Brooklyn, knew the practical part of the trade.
The plateau of Prospect Heights, Granite House, and the dockyardwere for the moment preserved.
Cyrus Harding feared above all lest the liquefied matter should overflow the shore, for in that event the dockyard could not escape.
He and I differed on many questions of naval administration, but we were at one as to the necessity of dockyard reform.
The Labour party was not then as well organised or represented in Parliament as they have since become, and their opposition to dockyard dismissals was less strenuous than it would be now.
Well, I will go round to the dockyard at once and see you sworn in, and then gladden the first lieutenant’s heart by telling him that you will bring a good number of men along with you, for at present we are very short-handed.
I hope the dockyard won’t keep us waiting for stores.
Both prizes were bought into the service and handed over to the dockyard for a thorough refit.
It happened that they were the only two boys that had been brought down, and the dockyard official said it would be a pity to separate them.
Till the vessel gets out of the hands of the dockyard men there is nothing whatever for you to do.
The dockyard officials, who had probably pocketed the money for a good spar, swore that the Nott only "wants a Plugg drove in" to be perfection.
Dockyard men at this time and for many years afterwards deserved to be suspended both from their duties and by their necks.
Before the tender sailed for the Downs, Anson discovered that the dockyard men had scamped their work in the Centurion.
It proved, however, to be one of the worst on record, and we were not destined to see the dockyard to which we started.
Having got this general view of the position I was anxious in the afternoon to visit Monfalcone, which is the small dockyard captured from the Austrians on the Adriatic.
It entered the Thames, forced the entrance of the Medway, and burnt both the dockyard at Chatham and a number of the finest ships in the navy which were lying in the river.
The English fleet then burnt the Dutch East India Company's dockyard at Terschelting, inflicting great loss.
The adjacency of the new tank to the dockyard at Portsmouth enables the Admiralty authorities to make fuller and more frequent use of it than formerly.
In 1877 the French naval authorities established an experimental tank in the dockyard at Brest, and the Italian government have just completed one on an elaborate scale in the naval dockyard at Spezia.
In the dockyard at Devonport, there stood a mast newly fitted with beautiful new white signal halliards, the very thing for the cutter.
By haulage and portage a perpetual procession of whaleboats and nuggars was kept moving up to the dockyard at Gemai.
It is the duty of a captain of the Dockyard Reserve to make representations, through the admiral-superintendent, to the Admiralty, with regard to improvements in construction and material.
At Yokohama, Admiral Yamamoto, Minister of Marine, courteously invited me to visit the dockyardand fleet at Yokohama, placing H.
The principle was that when she was taken over from the Dockyard authorities to be commissioned, she should be ready for sea.
Going round Portsmouth dockyard some few years since, I was very sad to see the noble old Marlborough a hulk" (she is now part of H.
Of course, no one ever steals anything nowadays; nothing is ever missing out of store; and no midshipman would dream of attempting to convey signal halliards from thedockyard into his boat.
As we had lost our boats, the American dockyard supplied us with some.
Another great race was rowed between the Osborne six-oared galley and the Dockyard boat.
Such, at least, were the considerations that induced me to apply for a dockyard appointment.
While in the dockyard he was entered in the books as a ship-carpenter, and conformed in every way to its regulations.
A special doorway was broken through the boundary wall of the dockyard to facilitate communication for the Czar.
The dockyard men and sailors were brought up, and following them were some carts laden with kegs of powder.
Marvels had been effected by the zeal and energy of the crews and dockyard men.
We have five hundred sailors and dockyard men behind; they have just arrived from Chatham, and a thousand more have landed below the Bridge to fight the flames on that side.
Cyril afterwards learnt that the sailors and dockyard men were, on the following day, sent back to Chatham.
Cyril's orders were to take her to Chatham, and to hand her over to the dockyard authorities.
In spite of the efforts of all these officers, but little could be done, owing to the want of hands, and to the refusal of the dockyard men, and most of the sailors, to do anything.
Delays, bad preparations, dockyard corruption, and the unpatriotic squabbles of the naval and military officers concerned caused the failure of a hopeful scheme.
The aim was the capture of the French East India company's dockyard at L'Orient, but it was not attained.
A law, enacted in the previous April, and evoked by a fire in an English dockyard, provided that the setting on fire of a public dockyard or a king's ship should be felony, and that those accused of such an offence should be tried in England.
Public feeling had lately been excited on the subject of treason by incendiary fires which did much damage in the Portsmouth dockyard and destroyed some buildings on Bristol quay.
I asked of a bystander who these people were, and he told me that they were dockyard mateys.
What to do I did not know I ran up and down every part of the dockyard until I was quite out of breath, asking everybody I met whether they had seen my two men.
I went home to my lodgings, and, to make them more anxious, I did not make my appearance at the dockyard for three or four days, when a letter came from the admiral, offering me the command of a frigate if I would join their service.
I had not been there long, when I was attracted by the squabbling created by a soldier, who, it appeared, had quitted the ranks to run up to the tap in the dockyard to obtain liquor.
We were ordered to the dockyard to draw sea stores.
The day after O'Brien had sailed for the East Indies, the dockyard men came on board to survey the brig, and she was found so defective as to be ordered into dock.
The Dockyard tug, with its freight of hoarse yet still vociferous sailor-men, had weighed her anchor, and moved down to the end of the line preparatory to steaming in the wake of the last race.
We shall think of the pneumatic riveter at work over your heads; we shall think of the blithe chatter of the dockyard maties all over the ship, and the smell of the stuff they stick the corticene down with .
They belonged to a West-country ship--that is to say, one manned from theDockyard Port of Plymouth.
Work of a very similar nature and extent has been carried out at Portsmouth, and the enlarged dockyard there was given over to the admiralty a few years ago.
Persons who had applied for female servants were present at the dockyard to receive them.
The intention at both these stations was to devote a goodly portion of the convict labour to further the dockyard extensions.
On my embarkation for Van Diemen's Land I had done three years and four months: if I had completed the remaining twenty months I should have been discharged from the dockyard a free man.
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