Sentence examples for local shipbuilding from inspiring English sources
The latter houses Greek and Roman artefacts from the island and Venetian art, as well as documenting the local shipbuilding and stonemasonry traditions.
Hall, 64, works the 3 p.m.-to-midnight shift for the local shipbuilding outfit so he can spend nearly every morning of the hunting season with his gunning float, a sneaky little boat designed for stalking waterfowl.
It is an attempt to prevent the local shipbuilding industry falling further into its so-called "valley of death" as work winds down on the air warfare destroyers in Adelaide, due to be completed in 2018, and work begins on the future frigates program in 2020.
The move comes after hundreds of jobs were lost in the local shipbuilding industry last year, and after ASC executive Mark Lamarre told Senate estimates late last year that the federal government-owned company would run out of shipbuilding work unless work on new offshore patrol vessels began in 2018.
The increased production of the local shipbuilding industry during World War II spurred Houston's growth, as did the establishment in 1961 of NASA's "Manned Spacecraft Center" (renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973), which created the city's aerospace industry.
Industries include shipbuilding, automobiles, electronics, steel, ceramics, chemicals, and paper.
The heavy dependence of the local economy on shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries resulted in severe unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Local industries include brewing, shipbuilding and repair, fish canning, iron working, and the manufacture of cement, textiles, and other goods.
But it has been drawing only about 60,000 visitors a year in a region where American history is a major tourist attraction, shipbuilding a local industry and the United States Navy a nearby presence.
Whitby grew in size and wealth, extending its activities to include shipbuilding using local oak timber.
Steel for the city's shipbuilding industry comes from local steelworks.
