Shipbuilding peaked in the 1840s as schooners and sloops transported timber and molasses for rum distilleries between Medford and the West Indies.

* 1929 – is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.

* National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, a shipyard in San Diego, CA owned by General Dynamics

Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company ( NNS & DD ), was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001.

* USS PCS-1379, the fourth of twelve Patrol Craft Sweepers constructed by Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation

* Shipbuilding in Waterford 1820 – 1882, by Bill Irish, ISBN 1-869857-91-7

The present site of Chickasaw was, in the early 20th century before the city now standing was incorporated, a company town, wholly owned by companies such as the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation.

Shipbuilding was accompanied by a wide range of ancillary business including machine shops, foundries, cabinet and furniture factories, and silversmith shops.

The ship was built by STX Europe, a subsidiary of South Korean shipbuilder STX Offshore & Shipbuilding.

A TI class supertankers | TI class supertanker built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Okpo, South Korea.

In 2007, STX Shipbuilding further strengthened South Korea's leading position in the industry by acquiring Aker Yards, the largest shipbuilding group in Europe.

William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1825 by William Cramp, and was the preeminent U. S. iron shipbuilder of the late 19th century.

* On 8 December 1942, the keel to the light cruiser designated CL-91, was laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, PA. On 22 April 1943, Oklahomans were outraged, having just learned that the Japanese had executed the captured American pilots from Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid over Tokyo.

Since 1962, the NVR has been maintained and published by the NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office ( NAVSHIPSO ) of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

AS-90 was designed and built by the Armaments division of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering ( VSEL, owned by BAE Systems since 1999 ), who provided 179 vehicles from 1992 to 1995 at a cost of £ 300 million.

It bought the former London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co's Middleton and Govan New shipyards in Govan and Mackie & Thomson's Govan Old yard, which had been owned by William Beardmore and Company.

A desk made for Robichaud by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company and given to him in 1966, which he used during his last years as premier and which was used by his successor Richard Hatfield was returned to the Premier's Office by Shawn Graham in 2006.

The Essex Shipbuilding Museum stands as a living testament to the wooden shipbuilding industry and the neighboring boat yard owned by generations of the Story Family still constructs and launches classic wooden ships built in the Essex tradition.

The ships were built by the following companies: Robert Napier & Company, Randolph Elder & Company, Dobbie Hedderwick & Co., Dobie & Company, Mackie & Thomson, Smith & Rodgers, London & Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., William Beardmore & Company, John Elder & Company, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng.

* 1865-1882 Operated by Shipbuilding Administration

Hitachi Shipbuilding of Osaka, Japan, was another licensee of Supramar, as well as many leading ship owners and shipyards in the OECD countries.

In 1891, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company delivered its first ship, a tugboat named Dorothy.

It founded the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, an emergency yard on the banks of the Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of 1941, building 243 ships in all, including 186 Liberties.

Amongs these were the aircraft carrier ; the battleships, now preserved as a museum ship at Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and ; and, the world's last all-gun heavy warship, which is still preserved at Fore River as the main exhibit of the United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum.

Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as " naval engineering ".

* Newport News Shipbuilding, ( formerly Northrup Grumman Newport News ) is the largest private ship builder in the US and the one best known for its unique capacity to build the s.

Shipbuilding and ship repair still features prominently in the local economy.

The ' Iran Sadr ' ship, built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering | DSME in 1985

The Dorchester was a 5, 649 ton civilian cruise ship, 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single funnel, originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers.

* December 29-Launch of HMS Warrior by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, the first all-iron warship, for the first time combining steam engines delivering high speed, rifled breech-loading guns, iron frames and armoured cladding, and the propeller, in the largest naval ship built to this date.

* A web exhibit of ship christening photos that includes twenty images of launching ceremonies at New York Shipbuilding

In 2012, JFE merged its ship building unit, Universal Shipbuilding Corp., with Marine United Inc. of IHI after discussion started in April 2008 to form Japan Marine United Corp.

* 2012-merged its ship building unit, Marine United Inc., with Universal Shipbuilding Corp. of JFE Holdings after discussion started in April 2008

The main universities are: Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding ( the only ship building university in Ukraine ), Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University, Mykolaiv Pedagogical Institute and Mykolaiv State Agrarian University.

In 2002, NCL purchased the half-complete hull of the first Project America ship, at the time under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA, which was towed to Germany to be completed at the Lloyd Werft shipyard.

In the prewar years, several dozen other merchant ships were built for the Commission under its original 500 ship Long Range Shipbuilding Program but it wasn't until the late fall of 1940 the critical importance of the Commission to the defense of the lifeline to Great Britain and to the national mobilization for war became apparent when the beginnings of the Emergency Shipbuilding program were laid.

The Super Liner Ogasawara at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding is the largest friction stir welded ship so far.

The ship was built as the Type T2 tanker SS Paoli at Sun Shipbuilding in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1944.

The ship was originally named the SS Musgrove Mills and was built in May 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

Design concepts for a 6000 + ton cargo SES's that Rohr and Ingalls Shipbuilding proposed relied on the idea of the ship loading and unloading from beach, lighter, causeway or conventional dock facilities.

Originally called the Borinquen ( 7, 114 grt, long ), the ship was built in 1930 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of Quincy, Massachusetts, and launched near the end of September.