Sentence examples for shipbuilding trade from inspiring English sources

From 1939 on, the U.S. government's Liberty Ship and Victory Ship programs turned the formerly sleepy American shipbuilding trade into the engine of perhaps the most intense construction program in history.

Wolters was born into a Catholic family in Coesfeld, Germany on August 3, 1903, the son of an architect who had married the daughter of a master carpenter in the shipbuilding trade.

But it fed the flames of Byzantine resentment against the Latins, and it provoked the rich, who might have been encouraged to invest their capital in shipbuilding and trade, to rely on the more familiar security of landed property.

Then stroll across the Green down to the River Clyde — originally the catalyst for the shipbuilding and trade that helped Glasgow grow, but now used mainly by recreational rowers and ducks.

Real prosperity emerged in the 19th century when shipbuilding and trade became important drivers.

The importance of Boston as a center of shipbuilding and trade, combined with a financial windfall caused by the crown's military spending on the 1711 Quebec expedition, offset some of the costs of waging the war.

Once a center for salt shipping, Lymington became known as a shipbuilding and trading port during the Middle Ages.

The town's early development was based on the steamboat trade, shipbuilding, limestone quarrying, and fishing.

The county was a centre of whaling, shipbuilding, and maritime trade in the 19th century.

Ferry connections with Norway and Sweden bring many one-day shopping tourists, and the city is an important centre for overseas trade, shipbuilding, fishing, and related industries.

The liveliness is indicative of a community known as much for its independent spirit as for its history as a shipbuilding center and trade port.