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shipyard a place or facility for the building, maintenance, and repair of ships shipyard [′ship‚yärd] (civil engineering) A facility adjacent to deep water where ships are constructed or repaired. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As the bight at Turner's Shipyard opened out, Charley edged into it to get the smoother water. Below the town of Benicia, where the Solano wharf projects, the Straits widen out into what bay-farers call the "Bight of Turner's Shipyard. It was a happy party that sailed north toward sunny, southern California, the old U-33 trailing in the wake of the Toreador and flying with the latter the glorious Stars and Stripes beneath which she had been born in the shipyard at Santa Monica. |
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