Sentence examples for of shipbuilding activity from inspiring English sources

Barrow, one of the country's last remaining industrial towns, was once home to the largest steelworks in the world and was a thriving centre of shipbuilding activity.

Its shores are indented by numerous coves and several large deepwater harbours, the main ones at Saint John and St. Andrews in New Brunswick and Digby and Hantsport in Nova Scotia, all harbour towns that burgeoned during the great lumbering, shipping, and shipbuilding activity of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

After the war, when demand fell, shipbuilding activity decreased and thus the use of asbestos in naval yards was likely to have decreased.

To fill this growing need for swift passage from Panama to California, shipbuilding activities increased dramatically.

Yet the school is only one of the group's non-shipbuilding activities.

As examples of ends, he cites health as the end of medicine, a ship as the end of shipbuilding, and victory as the end of generalship; these ends are products separate from the respective activities (1094a5-10).

I was no student of shipbuilding.

David Hulse, chairman of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' national shipbuilding committee, called it "a devastating day for the U.K. shipbuilding industry".

Former VP Bethlehem Steel, head of shipbuilding, past president SNAME.

Over the course of a century, the fortunes of shipbuilding nations have shifted like the tides.

Middlesbrough, in England, has not recovered from the loss of shipbuilding.