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"Naval strategy is built strategy, and the contest for influence and control on the world's oceans doesn't really begin at sea but on the drawing boards and in the shipyards."
"My new book, Mastery, is my attempt to write Thomas's Guide for practical shipbuilding for the everyday world."
"Water 7 is known far and wide for its great shipwrights."
"Harland and Wolff, the shipbuilders, knew their stuff."
"The message that comes home to me is just how amazingly impressive and ambitious and technologically competent these people were that were building these ancient vessels."
"This is your best ship, I can't believe you built this."
"It was a unique hybrid of clinker and carvel, a three-masted ocean-going vessel capable of carrying up to 100 tons of cargo."
"She was Gibbs’ pride and joy, America’s flagship."
"The ship was standing on the ground for more than 100 years."
"This is the largest wooden ship in the world. It's absolutely insane."
"An extraordinary scale: 1,600 ships refitted or built from scratch."
"No detail has been ignored in the making of this incredible vessel."
"Our ships are going to be built incredibly cheaply and Incredibly quickly."
"The ship's done, well correction, the ship is actually almost done, you see without a bed, a ship is just a ship."
"Indian ships were much more durable than English ships."
"The ghost fleet of Mallows Bay is a reminder of one of the most unique shipbuilding programs in history."
"Adding volume to the external ballast keel was a really good idea in relation to how much interior ballast we're going to have and where it's going to go."
"It seems Mick was right at the outset and the ships were built on the beaches."
"This team gets better with every single ship they make."
"There would perhaps not have been any Viking Age if it weren't for the Viking ships."
"The greatest liner ever built at the time."
"Once you move to sectional construction and welding, you can speed up the construction of simpler ships very, very quickly."
"I love it when ships are built for but not with like the unsc strident class that i also really like."
"Have humans ever come close to building a gargantuan, 5 million cubic meter vessel? No, but we've probably come closer than you think."
"I've always been interested in learning about the intricacies of the shipbuilding business."
"Once that aft deck section is dry, we can slide it into place on the ship and secure it in place with a bit of cement."
"They created ships whose design and technology is still used today, the world's longest lasting ship design, and the Chinese built millions of them."
"The hull block construction method increased efficiency and precision, allowing ship builders to focus on smaller, more manageable components before assembling the entire structure."
"Bringing a ship in need of repair to the dock is a meticulous process that involves advanced systems and machinery."
"The development of modern steel shipbuilding technology has undergone a remarkable evolution over the past century, transforming the maritime industry and enabling the construction of larger, more efficient, and safer vessels."
"You would have dynasties of shipwrights where it was a family business."
"His ambitions would create the greatest Italian liner ever built."
"This is the epic tale of the construction of the RMS Queen Mary and how she almost didn't make it to launch day."
"There's a special intoxicating loveliness to panelizing a ship from scratch."
"Shipbuilding strategy is ensuring that we develop that shipbuilding capability here in the UK in a way that we can encourage all UK shipyards with the necessary skills and expertise to continue to engage in that particular program."
"It's incredibly pretty. It is. It's also a very active shipbuilding port."
"What went into achieving such a phenomenal vessel."
"It's a well-laid-up hull, it's a keel that can't come off, so it's an integral keel."
"Shipbuilding at Buckler's Hard commenced in the early 18th century, a private shipyard adjoining the hamlet was established by James Wy, a local entrepreneur and timber merchant."
"The hall shop has undergone significant modernization with new equipment being put into operation."
"A staggering 14,000 meters of steel was cut each week, highlighting the incredible productivity and efficiency of the shipyard."
"The construction process was divided into 50 mega blocks which were assembled and joined together to create the final structure."
"MSC Maravilia finally touches the sea for the very first time, marking a significant milestone in its construction journey."
"Shipbuilding became a central focus for Norse economics, culture, and military."
"Viking ships gave as much focus to the hull as the frame to create a more holistically strong design."
"The Nords found themselves in an incredibly challenging homeland but instead of accepting the isolation, they persevered and turned those natural weaknesses into the basis of their strength into shipbuilding."
"My inspiration for this build is the Swedish warship the Vasa."
"I never get over the wonder of it all; you take an 80,000-ton ship and you bring it in and lay it down very carefully on the blocks."
"The British decide that they need bigger ships to keep up with the Japanese and Americans."
"The jumboization process cuts down on costs, resources, and the years of labor that it would take to build new cruise ships."
"The second largest ship ever built in medieval England was constructed here."
"Tomorrow we're going to find Henry V's Shipyard."
"We've discovered a whole shipbuilding industry on the waterfront where forges where smiths produced thousands of nails and rivets, kilns where bricks were fired."
"To build a ship that's built to last, you lay the keel, the mast."
"Britannic is built stronger, safer, but just four years later Britannic goes down twice as fast."
"Once the hull strapping is in and situated, we can go on to planking, which would be the next huge step in building Arabella."
"It was a real perfectionist... built this amazing ship, it was completely a creature of his imagination as an engineer and as a great ship designer."
"State-of-the-art technology and traditional know-how consistently place Japan among the world's largest shipbuilders."
"The building of the super tanker showed the world the technical capabilities of Japanese shipbuilding."
"They can make them bigger and faster, but it was the care and effort that went into her. She was a beautiful, wonderful ship."
"The French tend to either build ships that deserve every rotten tomato thrown at them or they switch over to producing stuff that is actually really absolutely top of its class."
"May the years bring her luck and may our passengers think sometimes of the man who built and launched here in our city of Belfast."
"After her maiden voyage, Captain E.J. Smith stated, 'I will say that I cannot imagine any condition which could cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.'"
"Wilmington began to thrive and prosper as a center of shipbuilding."
"It's like a birth to Titanic in Belfast."
"It's a ship that is more than the sum of its parts."
"Jumboization... they cut the brand spanking new ship in half and then they stick another section in the middle."
"The cedar woods... would become the source of their ship building material."
"She was 150 feet long, 13 feet wide, with a draft of two feet."
"She was fresh from Harland and Wolff's Belfast yards, strong in the strength of her 46,000 tons of steel."
"It is amazing that these ships were built because they are so much of a departure from what the Navy considered as the standard."
"The Corinthians were known as innovators in shipbuilding."
"We can officially say the hull's watertight now, for the first time in six months at least, so you know, that's a nice milestone."
"The Netherlands was a leader in ship building, innovating and producing large numbers of seagoing vessels."
"The mighty Clyde, the lifeblood of Scotland, upon whose banks the ships that sailed the world were built."
"How he launched his ships just baffles me, basically. Absolutely incredible."
"If this is actually the Triumfante, it will be the first study of a ship built following the groundbreaking designs of one of the most important ship designers of the 18th century."
"It's a different building system that takes the best of each technique and makes a revolution, creating different and better ships within the building tradition of the 18th century."
"The construction process of this magnificent vessel involved an astounding 35,000 tons of steel which was carefully crafted and assembled to create its massive hull."
"It seems like there's not as much information out here for the Virginia sloop as there are for other boats, so that'll make a bit of a challenge, but at the same time, that'll make it fun."
"It's amazing to have those resources out there for people like Damian and other young people to be the future of shipbuilding and shipwrights."
"She was large, technically advanced, overall a very well-built vessel for the period."
"Bengali ships had an average lifespan exceeding 20 years, while English ships were not known to last more than 12."
"The Titanic was not only the largest ship in the world but also the largest ship ever built."
"It's a perfect time being at Cape Town and being at the dock, we can just go to the airport, fly out for a week, and go see what Delos was built and born."
"The Arsenal of Venice was an industrial shipbuilding and weapons manufacturing site unrivaled anywhere in the world."
"Think of a new way to make a more successful ship."
"Some of the innovations of philosophy that went into that little ship truly are stunning."
"The shipbuilding industry has definitely changed in my lifetime."
"It sounds like we're trying to build a ship that doesn't leave a large wake."
"Here, shipbuilding is in the blood of the local community."
"The fact that we're going to be the first shipbuilder in Canada to deliver a vessel to the Navy since the beginning of the National shipbuilding procurement strategy is just a tremendous feat."
"The longest wooden ship to have ever been built was the Wyoming."
"It's such an amazing experience to do ships with you."
"Everybody who worked on her soon saw the potential and what this vessel could be: the world's biggest and most luxurious ocean liner."