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slipway

[ UK /slˈɪpwe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

How To Use slipway In A Sentence

  • When finished, Titanic Quarter hopes to include offices, shops, a maritime museum and, beside the old slipway, a building that will tell the Titanic story.
  • I am here concerned mainly with claims for damage caused by the deposit of silt on the bed of the river in sufficient quantities to interfere with navigation and the use of facilities such as slipways and moorings.
  • Penzance harbour has an excellent slipway for launching, with a large car park adjacent (fees charged for both).
  • Exploratory work for the renovation has revealed, for the first time since it was covered over in the 1700s, the slipway or ‘staithe’ at the back of the quayside building in Grape Lane.
  • One by one they were released into the River Stour from the jetty by the sailing club near the slipway at Quay Street.
  • The yard and slipway led to the harbour where the ships were serviced.
  • We dragged our kayaks down the slipway in to the water and got in.
  • Extending the pier, providing extra slipways and an off-shore marina acceptable to residents, are all part of ambitious plans submitted for funding.
  • From the 1st July there will be charges on everything from entering the port, use of slipways and basic port facilities to the landing of fish at a cost of up to €40 per tonne.
  • The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where she was fitted out, and the building where she was planned. Will the Titanic Ever Sink?
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