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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Royal Navy Dockyard".

Oct 4, 2026

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10:00
It was concluded in government papers released in 2005 that a Type 82 destroyer being utilised such as HMS Bristol could put power into the system, but that a further 354 megawatts would be needed.
speaker_0NARRATOR
10:12
But the real problem was, as Wilson reluctantly admitted, that although nuclear submarines could be plugged into the national grid in the Royal Dockyards in England and Scotland, in Northern Ireland there were no equivalent cables.
speaker_0NARRATOR
10:25
Essentially, there was no socket to plug them in.
speaker_0NARRATOR
10:28
Rees in his memoir states, A description usually used by Jerry Fitt, Rees assures us, So Wilson is using the phrase... extremist, trying to establish a neo-fascist government.

Unknown podcast

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020-Various

Sep 27 · 1 Mention

Bellona TimesNARRATOR
54:42
Hamilton, which is situated on the inner part of the Great Sound, had a population in 1901 of 2,246, that of St. George being 985.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
54:56
In Ireland Island is situated the Royal Dockyard and Naval Establishment.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
55:01
The harbour of St. George's has space enough to accommodate a vast fleet, yet, till deepened by blasting, the entrance was so narrow as to render it almost useless.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
55:15
The Bermudas became an important naval and coaling station in 1869, when a large iron dry dock was towed across the Atlantic and placed in a secure position in St. George, while, owing to their important strategic position in mid-Atlantic, the British government maintains a strong garrison.

Unknown podcast

Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8-William Walker, Jr

Sep 19 · 2 Mentions

Drew BrensonNARRATOR
33:18
On these occasions Samuel would take advantage of the Saturday afternoons to walk from Chatham to his brother's chambers in Lincoln's Inn.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
33:25
At the end of his seven years' apprenticeship Samuel spent another year in the other royal dockyards and at the naval college at Portsmouth.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
33:32
He then went to sea as Captain McBridge's guest, whose ship was one of Lord Keppel's fleet, and on this occasion he suggested sundry improvements in the apparatus of a ship, which were executed in Portsmouth Dockyard.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
33:44
In consequence of the abilities manifested by Bentham, many advantageous appointments were offered him.

10 MINS LATER

Drew BrensonNARRATOR
43:54
This introduction of steam power into the naval dockyards of Great Britain experienced at first the most violent opposition, and it was not until 1797 that any progress was made towards the furtherance of his object.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
44:05
During the same year Sir M. Isambard, then Mr. Brunel, presented himself to the General for the purpose of bringing before his notice certain machinery for making blocks.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
44:15
Bentham was at that time fully engaged by Lord St. Vincent in organising a better mode of managing timber in the Royal Dockyards, and it occurred to him that Brunel would be likely to influence the public in favour of machinery for working wood, and therefore proposed that he should be engaged for that purpose, recommending at the same time the adoption of his apparatus for shaping blocks, to which Brunel's machines were solely confined, a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the Portsmouth machinery to Brunel.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
44:42
This statement is made without any intention of detracting from Sir Isambard's well-earned reputation, but simply in justice to Bentham, who, singularly free from an inventor's jealousy, himself officially stated, In regard to the machinery, I was afterwards satisfied that Mr. Brunel had skill enough to have contrived machinery to have answered the same purposes, had he not found mine ready to his hand.

Unknown podcast

Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8-William Walker, Jr

Sep 13 · 2 Mentions

Drew BrensonNARRATOR
34:02
On these occasions Samuel would take advantage of the Saturday afternoons to walk from Chatham to his brother's chambers in Lincoln's Inn.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
34:09
At the end of his seven years apprenticeship Samuel spent another year in the other royal dockyards and at the naval college at Portsmouth.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
34:16
He then went to sea as Captain McBridge's guest, whose ship was one of Lord Keppel's fleet, and on this occasion he suggested sundry improvements in the apparatus of a ship, which were executed in Portsmouth Dockyard.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
34:28
In consequence of the abilities manifested by Bentham, many advantageous appointments were offered him.

11 MINS LATER

Drew BrensonNARRATOR
45:08
This introduction of steam power into the naval dockyards of Great Britain experienced at first the most violent opposition, and it was not until 1797 that any progress was made towards the furtherance of his object.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
45:19
During the same year Sir M. Isambard, then Mr. Brunel, presented himself to the General for the purpose of bringing before his notice certain machinery for making blocks.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
45:29
Bentham was at that time fully engaged by Lord St. Vincent in organising a better mode of managing timber in the Royal Dockyards, and it occurred to him that Brunel would be likely to influence the public in favour of machinery for working wood, and therefore proposed that he should be engaged for that purpose, recommending at the same time the adoption of his apparatus for shaping blocks, to which Brunel's machines were solely confined, a measure which has had the effect of giving almost the entire merit of the Portsmouth machinery to Brunel.
Drew BrensonNARRATOR
45:56
This statement is made without any intention of detracting from Sir Isambard's well-earned reputation, but simply in justice to Bentham, who, singularly free from an inventor's jealousy, himself officially stated, In regard to the machinery, I was afterwards satisfied that Mr. Brunel had skill enough to have contrived machinery to have answered the same purposes, had he not found mine ready to his hand.

Unknown podcast

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020-Various

Sep 12 · 1 Mention

Bellona TimesNARRATOR
52:57
Hamilton, which is situated on the inner part of the Great Sound, had a population in 1901 of 2,246, that of St. George being 985.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
53:10
In Ireland Island is situated the Royal Dockyard and Naval Establishment.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
53:15
The harbour of St. George's has space enough to accommodate a vast fleet, yet, till deepened by blasting, the entrance was so narrow as to render it almost useless.
Bellona TimesNARRATOR
53:29
The Bermudas became an important naval and coaling station in 1869, when a large iron dry dock was towed across the Atlantic and placed in a secure position in St. George, while, owing to their important strategic position in mid-Atlantic, the British government maintains a strong garrison.

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