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Encyclopedia: Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, originally called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.

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How to say "Shipbuilding" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	造船
	(Japanese)	造船
	(German)	Schiffbau
	(Spanish)	Construcción naval
	(French)	Construction navale
	(Italian)	Ingegneria navale

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American Shipbuilding Company

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Avondale Shipyard

Formerly independent company, acquired by Litton Industries, and acquired by Northrop Grumman Corporation. Now, along with the former Ingalls Shipbuilding, known as Northrop Grumman Ship Systems...

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Cleveland class amphibious transport dock

Homeport USS Cleveland (LPD-7) Ingalls Shipbuilding San Diego, California USS Dubuque (LPD-8) Ingalls Shipbuilding San Diego, California USS Denver (LPD-9) Lockheed Shipbuilding San Diego, California USS Juneau (LPD-10) Lockheed Shipbuilding Sasebo, Japan USS Coronado (LPD/AGF-11) Lockheed...

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Buckie

Buckie Harbour, with town in background Buckie is a burgh town of about 9,000 inhabitants on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland in Banffshire. Once a thriving fishing and shipbuilding port, these industries have declined...

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HMAS Adelaide (1980)

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Trenton class amphibious transport dock

the San Antonio class. Ships Ship Builder Homeport USS Trenton (LPD-14) Lockheed Shipbuilding Norfolk, Virginia USS Ponce (LPD-15) Lockheed Shipbuilding Norfolk, Virginia LPD-16, while...

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Kaiser Shipbuilding Company

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A1 (shipping)

registers after the name of the ship. See: Shipbuilding...

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Baltijos Laivo Statykla

Baltijos Laivo Statykla is a shipyard in Lithuania. The Company is the only shipbuilding yard in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) that supplies fleets and marine companies worldwide. Baltijos builds pontoons, barges, trawlers, floating docks, river ferries, dry cargo ships and...

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HMAS Onslow

HMAS Onslow (S-60), named for Onslow in Western Australia, was an Oberon class submarine laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company at Greenock in Scotland on 4 December 1967, launched on 3 December 1968 and commissioned on 22 December 1969. HMAS Onslow paid off in 1997 and is...

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