wet dock

She had learned how Liverpool’s 18th-century wealth from the trans-Atlantic trade, and thus the slave trade, owed to an engineering innovation: the world’s first commercial wet dock, allowing 100 ships to berth regardless of the tide.

During filming in Jamaica, Craig slipped while running on a wet dock and badly injured his ankle.

Sirens, tugboats and water cannon are expected to mark the Attenborough's departure from builder Cammell Laird's wet dock at Birkenhead.

But while many of her systems can be, and have been, tested in wet dock, the ship's readiness for service won't be signed off until she's been through deep-water trials.

It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.