Talk:Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company

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Did you know... that in 1919, Brooklyn's Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, founded by Edward P. Morse, built the world's largest floating dry dock (section pictured)?

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"The Morse company installed the ship with 6,500 such bunks in 1919."[edit]

You could say:

"The Morse company installed 6,500 such bunks in 1919."

"The Morse company equipped the ship with 6,500 such bunks in 1919."

"The Morse company installed 6,500 such bunks in the ship in 1919."

but the sentence as written is not English -- the ship should not be the direct object of "installed". . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 10:46, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why would it be correct for "equipped" but not for "installed"? Gatoclass (talk) 13:44, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Because you "equip x with y" -- "Joe equipped his house with a smoke alarm"

but you "install y in x" -- "Joe installed a smoke alarm in his house".

. . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 15:16, 31 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]