Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to before recorded history.
Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as "naval engineering". The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building.
Archaeological evidence indicates that humans arrived on Borneo at least 120,000years ago, probably by sea from the Asian mainland during an ice age period when the sea was lower and distances between islands shorter (See History of Borneo and Papua New Guinea). The ancestors of Australian Aborigines and New Guineans also went across the Lombok Strait to Sahul by boat over 50,000years ago.
Shipbuilding is a mini album recorded by Tasmin Archer. Archer decided to follow up her successful 1992 debut Great Expectations with an EP of four covers of songs written by Elvis Costello, which was released in January 1994 in the singer's homeland of the UK and peaked at #40 there. The title track served as the lead track.
SBK Records, Archer's label in North America, decided to release the EP as a full album instead, and to fill the space they also included four tracks from Archer's debut album in live form, including an acoustic version of Archer's UK #1 hit Sleeping Satellite.
The album was released on March 8 1994, but failed to chart in the USA. It achieved good reviews however, especially for the Costello covers.
"Shipbuilding" is a song written by Elvis Costello (lyrics) and Clive Langer (music). Written during the Falklands War of 1982, Costello's lyrics discuss the contradiction of the war bringing back prosperity to the traditional shipbuilding areas of Clydeside (Yarrow Shipbuilders), Merseyside (Cammell Laird), North East England (Swan Hunter) and Belfast (Harland and Wolff) to build new ships to replace those being sunk in the war, whilst also sending off the sons of these areas to fight and, potentially, lose their lives in those same ships. The best known version of the song is the version recorded and released as a single by English singer-songwriterRobert Wyatt in August 1982 a few months after the Falklands War, although it was not a hit until it was re-released eight months later on the first anniversary of the conflict.
In September 2013, Elvis Costello and The Roots released an answer song written in the perspective of the other side of the conflict, called "Cinco Minutos con Vos" ("Five Minutes with You"). The song is a duet partly sung in Argentinian Spanish by La Marisoul.
For example, civilian commercial shipbuilding is entirely different from naval shipbuilding, and the US does very little of that; we should try to encourage the development of a domestic shipbuilding ...
naval ship market, the HD Hyundai subsidiary said Wednesday, months after the Korean shipbuilder’s chief rival, Hanwha Ocean, indicated its intention to acquire the Philadelphian shipyard.
shipbuilding capabilities ...Philly Shipyard later worked with the engineering and naval architecture division of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, DSEC, which is now part of Hanwha Ocean after the conglomerate acquired control of DSME in 2023.
The United States can pursue opportunities for shipbuilding cooperation with Korea and Japan to raise the production rates of American vessels, a top U.S ... commercial shipbuilding industry has "atrophied" over recent decades.
A warship which is believed to have sunk in the Bay of Cádiz 300 years ago will soon be brought to the surface ... It is located in the Bay of Cádiz, which also features the shipbuilding yards of Puerto Real and the US Naval Base in Rota ... .
“We have a long-standing relationship with the company, and it is a good example of the excellent co-operation that exists between the Dutch and Swedish naval shipbuilding industries.”.
“We have a long-standing relationship with the company, and it is a good example of the excellent co-operation that exists between the Dutch and Swedish naval shipbuilding industries.”.
He is a former shipbuilder at Bath Iron Works... shipbuilding is struggling to keep up ... shipbuilding and steel manufacturing workers ... We need a multi-pronged approach to maintain America’s naval dominance that strengthens our shipbuilding industry.
... developing less experienced team members.It would be beneficial if you have experience working on UK naval marine shipbuilding projects or defence related design experience but this is not essential.
... developing less experienced team members.It would be beneficial if you have experience working on UK naval marine shipbuilding projects or defence related design experience, but this is not essential.
... into China’s shipbuilding practices ... China has a leading 46.59% of the global market share in shipbuilding, while the US has an insignificant 0.13% share, according to data from the US Naval Institute.