The phrase "construct a ship" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of building a boat or similar type of vessel. For example, "The shipbuilders put a lot of work into constructing the new ship."
You wouldn't be able to construct a ship like that on Earth.
So, Peter – the Tsar of all Russia – spent time in Holland, learning how to construct a ship, engaging in manual labor with axes, chisels and hammers.
In this paper, Linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control algorithm linked to Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithm has been applied to a multivariate auto-regressive exogenous (MARX) model of ships to construct a ship autopilot.
The descendents of the original owners have been collecting the discarded original planks, and three hundred years after the christening they obtain the last of the original planks and construct a ship that is indistinguishable from the original ship.
As each plank is removed from the original ship it is used to construct a ship that is constituted from all and only the planks belonging to the original ship.
They eventually construct a ship and sail to a "promised land" in the Western Hemisphere.
In 2006, the mayor of Salbris announced plans to construct a shipping depot on an industrial site near the Château de l'Écluse.
This design failing also … he next constructed a ship so made that it would very suddenly cleave asunder, in the hope of destroying her either by drowning or by the deck above her cabin crushing her in its fall".
The British primarily used arc welding, even constructing a ship, the "Fullagar" with an entirely welded hull.
The lymphovascular embolus represents the phenomenon of the "ship in the bottle" where the arduous and complex task of constructing a ship within a bottle is replaced with the relatively effortless and simple job of building the bottle around the ship [5].
Jason convinced the master builder, Argus, to construct a special ship (Argo Navis) and assembled a group of prominent Greek heros (including Heracles) for the mission.
