shipbuilding
Noun
Meaning
Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
After the British took over the colony in 1664, and was renamed "New York", the development of the waterfront continued, and a shipbuilding industry grew up once New York started exporting flour.
An azimuth thruster in shipbuilding is a propeller that can be rotated horizontally.
An important aspect of the re-set of the world economy and the de-coupling of the United States and China is the business of world shipping and shipbuilding (the maritime domain) and the military situation (the naval domain).
Although the economy of Moncton was traumatized twice—by the collapse of the shipbuilding industry in the 1860s and by the closure of the CNR locomotive shops in the 1980s—the city was able to rebound strongly on both occasions.
By the 18th century, most of Britain's forests were consumed for shipbuilding or manufacturing charcoal and the nation was forced to import lumber from Scandinavia, North America, and the Baltic.