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Sentence Examples Near the docks, I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack. The Alyeraen ships, especially the royal vessels never waited at the main docks. In Istanbul, too, there was the problem of privately owned areas that had to be expropriated to make way for the new docks and quays. The men created a world of their own on the docks, levees, plantation landings, city quays, and steamboat decks of the Mississippi River economy. Gold was vital to a city like New York, where stevedores daily handled huge amounts of cargo at its many docks, wharves and piers. In addition there are historic artifacts, submerged wharves and docks, and natural features like caves and reefs to explore. Various other communities want better docks, wharves, breakwaters, and repairs or replacements for airport runways and buildings. Mr Monaghan recollects the first time he saw the ship arriving at Sligo's docks. Coming to the London docks he was shocked at the misery and poverty of casual labour and organized a docker's union. The Salford sailor was issued with a identity card that allowed him to freely enter and leave ports and docks. An awful lot of landed gentry are going to end up in the docks for cultivation of a Class A drug on their land. You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches. The facility has since rewired the docks and the service is much better, he said. Previously, the Teamsters operated the warehouses and drove to the stores, but did not pull the rigs into the loading docks. Before the docks were built lightermen ferried goods from ships in midstream to the river quays. For underwater sabotage missions, each diver can carry a limpet mine to attach to the hull of enemy watercraft or docks. Adare port need not have existed at all if the approaches to Limerick docks were better. It could see major roads and arteries into the city gridlocked as hundreds of lorries are stopped from accessing the docks. Imagine machinists, teachers, and even baseball players marching together to the docks to support the longshore workers! Add in a deserted docks scene with a bunch of cowering, villainous longshoremen, a runaway train and the inexplicable appearance of bats. Show More Sentences Susan worked as a tailoress, as did her older sister, Florence, while their brother, Benjamin, joined George at the docks. They were in a cluster of warehouses, and the smell of salt air told him the docks were nearby. Third party carriers deliver finished products directly to Jerome Cheese Company's customers from three shipping docks. That allowed regulatory agencies to issue construction permits for docks and marinas that have been stalled for months. Liverpool went bust because its economy depended on the docks, and it was on the wrong side of the country for trade with Europe. Police cars start arriving at the docks with lights flashing and sirens screaming, as irate ferry workers haul a body out of the water. The Coast Guard screened maritime workers for loyalty, and blacklisted and drove hundreds off the ships and docks. All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters. Co-owner Phil Dunham, a 45-year-old bargemaster from Runcorn, admitted it was sad to see the two docks close. Canada is every bit as vulnerable, experts say, at its ports, docks, canals, lakes, and seaways. Anne's eye grew tearful again, as they stepped from the carriage into the somewhat seedy docks of London. The docks represent your point of embarkation on this voyage of self-discovery. Apparently the ship had gotten in a little earlier than usual and they were already tying it up to the docks. I followed them across the docks toward the buildings while workers took time out to stare at me. The first raid failed to destroy the docks, but X24 succeeded in despatching a merchantman. From the docks, specialized equipment was stored in sheds or moved directly to designated bases along back roads at night. I waited him out, biding my time until he sent all of his men away to scour the docks for any watchers. A ship called the Jolly George was awaiting a shipload of arms destined for Polish troops in London's East End docks in May. Lately, however, jobs were getting rather scarce as docks and shipyards began to tighten their security. For two players like us, dinner on the docks was plenty incentive to strive for pocket billiards excellence. Show More Sentences His talent at piloting was uncanny and he had spent his time mooning about the docks, watching the skimmers. Many clubs do not have moorings but certainly have docks, piers, gangways and floats. St. Thomas harbor was pretty full of boats but most of them were on moorings just west of the docks at Yacht Haven. Some 69 boats were sunk or destroyed when the hurricane took out concrete piers anchoring the floating docks. Today the sailboats and skiffs are lost to history, along with the working vessels that carried goods to docks long gone. As he neared the boat house, he swung out away from the boathouse towards the edge of the trees, keeping as far away from the docks as possible. Just 1 mile north of downtown, you can wander along the waterfront past marinas, docks, houseboat communities, and working boatyards. Floating in the bay, a lone shadow from pasts unforgotten pulls herself onto the docks of Boston. Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water. The container ships bringing in vital supplies of roof slate are sitting at the docks unladen. Workmen at the docks were unloading the crates from the tugboats and cruises. On 28 July an official strike against unregistered labour on the docks began. The present crisis on the docks illustrates the dead end of the nationalist and pro-capitalist policy of the trade union bureaucracy. A century ago there were more than 40 smokehouses in Hull, curing thousands of tonnes of fish landed at the docks. However, this bridge was the limit of navigability of the river, which is why it is the furthest upstream that you find the remnants of docks. Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match. I used to get my car valeted down by the docks and when I got it back it would stink of fish. She saw the boats pulling away from the docks and the water foamed and bubbled beneath them. His own obsession began when he was a boy and saw a huge bull shark brought ashore on the Miami Beach docks, still breathing. The docks area of Leith buzzes with a large selection of pubs, cafes and clubs. Show More Sentences My wife and I recently spent a lazy after noon down by the oceanfront in Seattle, licking ice cream and strolling along the docks. He had been working in the Murphy Transport-operated compound at the docks when the accident happened. These features are as just as diagnostic as slipways, docks, capstans, roperies, smithies or other such structural evidence. The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers, tools, cargo and refuse. Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water. Bob was a shady seeming character who hung out around the docks rather a lot. While larvae can settle around docks or boat hulls, their preferred habitat is an oyster shell on an oyster reef. A seawall at Herrington was broached by the surge, destroying large sections of docks. There was pandemonium at the docks as people tried to get out by boat, but the North Vietnamese were just across the river. I can't see any benefit in a lighthouse, a clock tower and a series of boat docks to the general public or holidaymaker. My apartment block lay in the distance, down the slight hill past the redeveloped Ipswich docks with its penthouse flats and wine bars. Towards the end of the month I got a two-month job with a food importer at the docks, carrying sacks. Today we see our soldiers being farewelled and welcomed at airports and docks and we also see their upset spouses and their confused children. It will be seen that boats lose much valuable time, which would be saved if the receiving docks were more favorably located. Vessels shall leave the docks immediately upon loading inflammables in the port of Montevideo. Yes, but, sir, the docks at Maput are undergoing a rolling programme of containerisation. He loved how she enjoyed watching the clouds and he loved how she said the fishy smell of the Polperro docks was heavenly. Not even a coot presented itself among the boats and docks, but I finally saw an Osprey at a great distance. Whether it's a floatplane running into the docks or simply keeping everyone happy, there's never a dull moment. The tram docks, and you fight your way out into what is often a maelstrom of strong winds and snow flurries. Show More Sentences High water levels, again, floated many boats off their lift cradles or up through roofs of covered docks. This was part of the redevelopment of the whole area formerly covered by the docks. With more free time on their hands, many of them plan extended cruising around these docks. Over a quarter of a million tons of freight moves from depots to docks, from factories to freight yards. Boat owners can always call ahead to a marina and check on their latest price if they're cruising in an area with several fuel docks. It must have been a very sad sight to see four grown men standing on the docks crying their eyes out. She jogged over to the docks, feeling much more free without the dresses women were cursed with. The war ended, the airmen left, and Telegraph Cove became a sawmill town again, providing custom-made lumber for boats and docks. This is rarer and is usually caused by weeds such as nettles and docks, late flowering plants and fungal spores. If you have done the daffs and the bluebells and have a taste for pink, then head out now and see the docks in bloom on Fulford Ings. As with Chinese restaurants, most Indian eateries were community cafes down by the docks. He peered over onto the docks, and then beckoned for his men to come up the gangplank onto the ship again. He docks his vintage, gas-guzzling cruiser at the yacht club and doesn't like the noise of the occasional plane invading his personal space. I moved on and turned right away from the docks and dawdled along doing some inconsequential window-shopping as I went. Her breath came out in puffs as they walked down the cobblestone street toward the docks. A recent shutdown at US docks nearly dragged the region's economies into recession. I remember my granny had huge arms with tattoos because women in the 1920s used to go and get tattooed at the docks. At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard. Then, as they approached the docks, the diggers stared in awe at the remains of the once-mighty Imperial Japanese Navy. Today there was a planned nonviolent direct action against two shipping companies at the Oakland docks that profit from war. Show More Sentences The digger operator called the Ministry of Defence Police, who evacuated people from the surrounding docks and buildings. I was working part-time at the docks, unloading the ship's cargo boxes and supplies. The two outer forks were retractable space docks for repairing larger ships. Once China lost control of its repair docks at Port Arthur, nothing could be done to put its damaged foreign-built ships back in service. She sat on the wooden railing of the Port City docks, as sailors and merchants loaded and unloaded their ships full of goods. The ageing loading and unloading facilities of the docks fail to satisfy the requirements of modern logistics. There, slowly sailing towards them was a large ship coming from the docks of Port Refuge. At one point 16,000 dockers organised mobile pickets and closed the docks along the Thames. From the docks along the Eastern Seaway to the towering spires along the Western Peaks, the great city slowly rose from its slumber. He walked along the docks, and up ahead of him there was a man hidden in the shadows. The docks were the main target, but many of the bombs fell on surrounding residential areas. The docks were of great social as well as economic significance to Belfast. The report recommends a maximum height of 12 storeys in underdeveloped areas such as around Heuston Station, Spencer Dock and the south docks. During the 1926 General Strike I remember standing in Commercial Street as troops went by in armoured cars to go to the docks. Blaise walked along the docks, holding his breath as the unfamiliar scent of fish reached his nose, making him gag. Charles also ordered that navy rations stored in the docks in the East End should be given to those who had fled the city. At the centre of the docks is Ivory House, a converted warehouse that was transformed 23 years ago into 37 flats. Meanwhile, down at the docks, some sailors have finished drinking at the Blue Whale and are spilling out. At about 2.30 am, his body was pulled from the water by the lifeboat crew down by the docks, near the jetty. The concrete was 6 inches thick in the parking terrace and 8 inches to 10 inches thick in the loading docks to accommodate the heavy trucks. Show More Sentences They forget there's an entire warehouse back there with 20 employees and loading docks. The numerous loading docks, which run along the entire perimeter of the building, allow the transfer of materials to the various stores within. Three separate tractor-trailer loading docks on two different levels can accommodate 36 trailers simultaneously. They already had been supporting other unions by refusing to back their trucks up to supermarket loading docks. Garages and loading docks in buildings are a major source of carbon monoxide. This year, Apple has chosen to begin accessorising its iPhones once again, offering new docks and cases for the new phones. Sometimes you gotta give your phone a rest, and that's where phone docks come in. He is exhausted and as he docks the boat, he falls over and lies with the mast on him. The scheme is operated by the employer, who docks the money each week and passes it to the charities. At 10.24 am he was brought without handcuffs into court and through the prisoners' docks. I was out with this dangerous looking implement this afternoon, cutting down nettles, rosebay and docks nearly as tall as I am. There were about a dozen kilometres of line, running from the upper dockyards down to a yard near the docks below the falls. They're oared to the docks where a Guild Estimator boards and examines the cargo, noting its quality and determining the number of lots that will go up for sale. He noted Pulp and Paper mills, shipyards and docks as examples. Not surprisingly, procedures and security systems for loading docks, mail rooms and alternative entrance ways into high-rise buildings have become a major focus. Liverpool was the leading handler of traffic, with 2.5 million tons in 1830, but nationally in 1841 three-fifths of tonnage was still handled without docks. This device is designed for use in such locations as warehouses, stockrooms and loading docks, where it could be destroyed easily in a single gravity mishap. To the ugly-American eye it looks like a vast and patchy soccer field, bordered by stockyards, grain silos and the clanging docks of Port au Spain. Reporters hung about the docks, waiting for released convicts to land. After that first year of college I was humping freight on loading docks for a summer job, and on breaks us kids would shoot the bull with the truck drivers. Show More Sentences A huge police operation was carried out on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to unearth any clues with divers scouring the waters of the River Ribble at the docks. After we were pulled aboard, the steersman headed back toward the docks. We drive through the long tunnel until we reach the dry docks. For the first time in a long while he found himself able to walk to the docks with his head held high, confident in the knowledge that he was his own man once more. By day two, the rioters tended to be Irish cartmen, quarrymen, and street pavers, as well as workers employed on the docks and in the railroad yards and foundries. The other boats of Kilthan's convoy floated ahead and astern of his own, nuzzling the docks, hatches battened down, and a peaceful sense of expectancy hovered about them. If the owner of the marina ever decides to provide electricity to the docks, you can get one of those lifts that bring the whole boat out of the water. It was an isolated place with no docks and no homes, centered on a fragile land break bordered by sea, and thus more intimately connected to a wider world. I am surprised that dockers have not done something about blacking these products, which I am sure are exported through some docks in the country. You can spend hours combing the waters edge surfacing and sunning for a while at any one of many exit docks where there are chairs to enjoy the green jungle view. The mailers assist in the movement of newspapers from the printing presses to bundle-tying machines and then onto docks where they are loaded onto delivery trucks. I look out over the docks again and watch the bright moon in the sky. There has been high interest in the site but its future remains shrouded in controversy as numerous competing plans exist for the last site along the old docks. Some veterans have prime docks that historically offer great shrimping. In addition new parks, public spaces and pedestrian routes, a new marina, moorings and recreation areas will be built throughout the whole docks area. The least thing she needs are now the press finding out about murders at her docks and the shipping companies avoiding her harbour because of the gunrunners. As he descends, his head is turning like the needle of an indecisive compass, his eyes taking in each and every bit of action on the docks below him. The docks stretched the width of the town, from wall to wall, a cobbled waterfront avenue with two wharves jutting out into the bay, embraced by the arms of the breakwater. Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers. During his time there, he moonlighted as a public relations consultant, masterminding arrangements for Prince Albert to lay the foundation stone for new docks at Grimsby. Show More Sentences Soon, lake docks are glowing with electric twinklers and candle lamps. These committees will be looking at infrastructure security issues as well, including marinas, boat ramps, docks, anchorages and major marine or special events. In addition the cleats on both the docks and boats need to be upgraded. The first vessels moved away from the docks while canvas crept up the masts and sails were sheeted home, and they watched in fascination as the entire convoy began to move. We fought our way through the crowd and ran for our lives to the docks. As for those six waterfront home sites, three would front the Intracoastal and the other three would be on the marina basin, all with private docks. The ship's doctor can presumably take blood, and, though possibly not having a haematology laboratory on board, may be able to get the bloods tested when the ship docks. In Sete, the conflicts are apparent along the ancient docks. Late in the afternoon, we drop anchor beneath the island's precipitous cliffs and, possessed by a powerful craving for a cold beer, row to the fish-stained docks. I will need that photograph of Stephen in his uniform, along with my burgee and membership card, when I sail up to the docks of other yacht clubs. The heart of the New City is right on the water, on the formerly abandoned docks of La Joliette. The massive naval harbour that bites into Algeciras Bay was a Victorian achievement, that was only properly completed in the 1900's after which the dry docks were laid down. And no squid is safe from the Seattle squid jiggers who flock to the docks at dusk and stay into the wee hours of the night, hoping to catch a few. Some of its family kin include buckwheat, rhubarb, sorrels, docks, bistorts, water peppers, devil's shoestring, silver lace vine, smartweed, and black bindweed. Although employed at a delicatessen near the East India docks, he is a shady character whose motive for being in the area I suspect has to do with the opium dens. The bars scraped along the concrete landing ramps as the ferry docks. By 1815 a wave of canals, docks, port, and road improvements, waterworks, lighthouses, and bridges were establishing the profession of consulting engineer. This railway link was severed in 1966 when the famous cradle bridge across the docks was closed permanently for safety reasons. Moneo's taut, elegant new part docks into the old palace to create an impluvium style courtyard. With a boat ramp and two docks, the 50-acre salt-water lake is a boon to boardsailors and small-boat skippers. Show More Sentences Provides marine systems ranging in scope from seawalls, boatlifts, elaborate dock systems, to simple docks. From here on, it's mainly a lot of small roadside docks for airboat rides run by members of the Miccosukee tribe. The property features multiple loading docks and drive-ins and a large parking lot. Plus, clove hitches are used in seafaring, and with the docks being so important to the city, it just seemed to make sense. I can imagine old merchant navy guys enjoying one last dark rum in this wee howf before boarding ship at the nearby docks. Dandelions, docks and couch grass, are, the books will tell you, eradicable. Sam Vimes awoke from a pig's nightmare to find himself lying on a pile of sacks in a godown in the docks. The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves. We have used electrics for city and suburban deliveries, as well as for short heavy haulings from terminals, docks and warehouses. Bombing raids brought major loss of life as the German Air Force targeted the docks at Swansea, Cardiff and Pembroke. Bradshaw's administration saw increased deterioration of the fabric of the canal, the locks, docks and warehouses. Work was carried out in the Mersey estuary around the docks to improve access for vessels. The Irwell and Mersey were made navigable by 1736, opening a route from Manchester to the sea docks on the Mersey. The London docks and railways communications had taken a heavy pounding, and much damage had been done to the railway system outside. Attacks against East End docks were effective and many Thames Barges were destroyed. Warehouses, rail lines and houses were destroyed and damaged, but the docks were largely untouched. The advent of containerisation meant that the city's docks became largely obsolete, and dock workers were thrown out of jobs. As a major British port, the docks in Liverpool have historically been central to the city's development. Hanley grew up close to the docks and much of his early writing is about seamen. Several office areas around the docks, along with significant residential presence. Show More Sentences During the 1960s, at the time when the upstream docks were closing, the PLA further extended the Tilbury dock facilities. They say all the lowlifes used to hang out at the docks and plot their despicable crimes, before being elected to public office. In the 1890s the docks of South Wales accounted for 38 percent of British coal exports and a quarter of global trade. During the war both Cardiff and Swansea were targets for German air attacks due to their important docks. The Taff Vale Railway was built to transport coal from the South Wales Valleys to the docks. Everard liked to shop at the stores specializing in odd lots down by the docks, as he was a cheapskate. The docks enabled ship movements within the dock system 24 hours a day, isolated from the high River Mersey tides. From 1885 the dock system was the hub of a hydraulic power network that stretched beyond the docks. Cruise ships sailed from Langton Dock, part of the enclosed north docks system. Today, only the Canada Dock branch line is used to serve the docks, using diesel locomotives. Currently consisting of four large docks, the Port of Barrow is one of North West England's most important ports. The docks built between 1867 and 1881 in the more sheltered channel between the mainland and Barrow Island replaced the port at Roa Island. There are also commercial docks at Mostyn although their use is limited by the tide. Many docks are not designed to withstand the weight of several resting sea lions. The two docks had by then long silted up, imprisoning the rotting hulk of an old wooden ship, the Bollam. Fish can be negatively affected by docks and retaining walls which remove breeding habitat in shallow water. In 1910 they were transferred from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven, where two new large docks had been completed and more were under construction. Conventional cargo ships berth in the eastern area of the docks on the Quai des Flamands and Quai des Mielles. Despite the French surrender of the main fortifications, the British held the docks until the morning of 27 May. The British Royal Navy ships needed assistance after the docks, harbours and piers were bombed by the Germans. Show More Sentences Internal injuries stemming from being trapped between hulls and docks and impacts have also been fatal. The first to reach an incoming ship would navigate it to the docks and receive payment. The structural and economic development of docks continued for the next few decades. In 1938, Southampton docks also became home to the flying boats of Imperial Airways. Southampton has always been a port, and the docks have long been a major employer in the city. These now exist alongside the city's older industries of the docks, grain milling and tobacco processing. Reception areas for new cars now fill the Eastern Docks where passengers, dry docks and trains used to be. Lymington yacht basin and mudflats make up the former docks area known as Waterford. Specifically, London outfitted, financed, and insured many of the ships, which helped fund the building of London's docks. The docks of Goa were soon producing their own carracks for the India run back to Portugal and for runs to further points east. Ships, docks, and shipyards were destroyed and ports sabotaged with rocks and pine stakes. The Portuguese ships, anchored out in the harbor and unable to approach the docks, helplessly watch the unfolding massacre. Survivors were rounded up and forced to the docks where they were kept for the several days while further demonstrators were caught. Infrastructure projects improved or created docks, roads, monuments and sporting facilities mostly in the capital and municipal seats. Most immigrants to New York would disembark at the bustling docks along the Hudson and East Rivers, in the eventual Lower Manhattan. Throughout the 18th century the navy yard remained the town's main employer with between 500 and 1,400 men working in the docks. He designed various houses, docks, commercial buildings, an arsenal, and a cannon factory. It has several small branches, and in the early 21st century a new link was constructed into the Liverpool docks system. In addition, Manchester's business community viewed the charges imposed by Liverpool's docks and the railway companies as excessive. The graving docks were constructed adjacent to the south bank of the canal, and a floating pontoon dock was built nearby. Show More Sentences The overpowering strength of the British fleet enabled it to occupy the Chesapeake and to attack and destroy numerous docks and harbours. The docks built between 1863 and 1881 in the more sheltered channel between the mainland and Barrow Island replaced the port at Roa Island. The docks were expanded in 1908 with the construction of the Fish Dock, accessible through Wyre Dock and still used today for the inshore fleet. Stan stole a diary and some pens, pencils, ink and rubbers during his early days as a POW working on the Singapore docks. The feuding for control of the Jersey waterfront made news as sluggings, bombings, and beatings continued on the Jersey City docks. It will also include 1,086 covered stock pens, 29 stock docks, a cafe, weighbridges and auction rings. Lily pads, dollar pads, branches of fallen trees, cypress knees and boat docks are favorite haunts of crappie looking to deposit their eggs. Esther Williams swam in its aquacade, and Pan American China Clippers arrived and departed from docks jutting into San Francisco Bay. The pounds 16,457-a-year ranger's contract states that they will lay rat traps every time the island's supply boat docks. The freak accident which killed tanker driver George happened as the truck left docks near his home in Immingham, East Yorks. For centuries, the East End has been the first port of call for many immigrants working in the docks and shipping from east Bengal. During the 20th century, when the docks declined in importance, Newport remained an important manufacturing and engineering centre. The main objective of the siege, the destruction of the Russian fleet and docks took place over winter. On 28 February, multiple mines blew up the five docks, the canal, and three locks. Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area. The wings are manufactured at Broughton in North Wales, then transported by barge to Mostyn docks for ship transport. Hull damage can be caused by submerged logs, poor strapping to trailers, and collisions with other boats, docks, rocks, etc. Harbor pilots and tugboats may maneuver large ships in tight quarters when near docks. These poor people worked on the docks unloading inbound vessels and loading outbound vessels with wheat, corn, and flax seed. In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. Show More Sentences Her arrival into the docks was heralded as an example of the scale of vessel which the town could expect to attract. They manned an amphibious base which included a hospital built in Hakin and a docks complex at Newton Noyes. In 1991, the Tall Ships Race came to Milford, and this coincided with an overhaul of the docks. The route to Hakin and the western side of the town is along the A4076 via Victoria Bridge over the docks. The main internal features were the boat sheds and the docks. The system is ideal for installation at delivery or receiving doors, employee entrances, entrance or lobbies, will-call or pick-up windows, loading docks, and factory floors. Cardiff faced a challenge in the 1880s when David Davies of Llandinam and the Barry Railway Company promoted the development of rival docks at Barry. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has two of the largest dry docks in Europe, where the giant cranes, Samson and Goliath stand out against Belfast's skyline. On 7 September, a massive series of raids involving nearly four hundred bombers and more than six hundred fighters targeted docks in the East End of London, day and night. Especially damaged was transportation infrastructure, as railways, bridges, and docks had been specifically targeted by airstrikes, while much merchant shipping had been sunk. The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks. Swansea Docks consists of three floating docks and a ferry terminal. The second railway, the Cronk and Harwick Railway, was established in 1830 as a coal railway line transporting coal to the Harwick docks as well taking miners to work. Covered by naval bombardment, the army drove off the French force detailed to oppose their landing, captured Cherbourg, and destroyed its fortifications, docks, and shipping. They were added to a small number of docks along the south coast of England which the company already owned, to make it the largest docks operator in the world. Survivors rushed to the open space of the docks for safety and watched as the water receded, revealing a sea floor littered with lost cargo and shipwrecks. To the East the Port of London grew rapidly during the century, with the construction of many docks, needed as the Thames at the City could not cope with the volume of trade. Dig or rotovate the lawn site, getting out all the weeds if possible, but particularly dandelions, docks, plantains, buttercups, nettles and couch grass. However, it did not meet the fire regulations for the docks, and the Society of Coal Whippers, worried about losing their livelihood, even threatened the life of Trevithick. For twenty years, he realised the improvement of the commercial port, and the digging of the docks of the military port, constituting the New Arsenal. Show More Sentences On 15 September the Luftwaffe made two large daylight attacks on London along the Thames Estuary, targeting the docks and rail communications in the city. The Navy's large fleet units are supported by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary which possesses three amphibious transport docks within its operational craft. The four container vessels commissioned that year, each of 11,898 gross tons, were the largest ever to make regular use of the terminal docks at Salford. Communications along the valley floors provided the main routeways for exporting coal south to ports and docks such as Newport Docks, Cardiff Docks and Barry Docks. In 1984 Salford City Council used a derelict land grant to purchase the docks at Salford from the Ship Canal Company, rebranding the area as Salford Quays. When salving large ships, they may use cranes, floating dry docks and divers to lift and repair submerged or grounded ships, preparing them to be towed by a tugboat. Seven terminal docks were constructed for the opening of the canal. Chinese sea-goers were the first to control their ships with sails and rudders, employ compartmentation, paint vessels' bottoms to inhibit wood rot, and build dry docks. The revival of other northern airfields is set to continue, as is the reactivation of docks on the New Siberian Islands and the Franz Josef archipelago. In a linked operation in England, Robert Flook was caught at Felixstowe docks with pounds 28million of cocaine and cannabis he shipped from Durban last October. Ambitious attempts were made to link Swansea's docks to coal rich areas, such as the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, but these plans were never truly economically successful. Southampton is also served by the rail network, which is used both by freight services to and from the docks and passenger services as part of the national rail system. Until the early 1920s, Cardiff docks continued to boom as a location for shipping companies, but the fall in demand for Welsh coal caused a dramatic fall in exports. Only two docks, the Roath and the Queen Alexandra, remain in use, and just two shipping companies remain, albeit buoyant with their worldwide interests. He was also shocked to find that Hamburg had suffered saturation bombing by the Royal Air Force, not just of military targets and docks as they had been told. Both this and its successor the Southern Railway played a significant role in the creation of the modern port following their purchase and development of the town's docks. The four main docks include Buccleuch Dock, Cavendish Dock, Devonshire Dock and Ramsden Dock, with the latter handling almost all of the port's cargo. The new deepwater docks were an extension of all that maritime activity. In the north, some branch docks have been filled in to create land. Captain Myers moved his lapstrake Hewes to a more forgiving set of docks. Find more words! 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