On December 4, 1999, a storm destroyed a huge crane in a shipyard, which was able to lift 900 tons.

He was elected as a union leader and a year later he led a shipyard strike.

In 1840, the Kockums shipyard was founded and it eventually became one of the largest shipyards in the world.

The turning point for the community was when Joseph Salter built a shipyard at The Bend that ultimately resulted in the employment of about 1000 workers.

The newly-build 200 ton patrol boat Brendan Simbwaye, built at the Brazilian shipyard INACE, was commissioned on 19 January 2009.

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.

In May 1915 while traveling to England on shipyard business, aboard the RMS Lusitania, Hopkins ' tenure and life ended prematurely when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Queenstown on the Irish coast.

Just northwest of the shipyard, Hilton Village, one of the first planned communities in the country, was built by the federal government to house shipyard workers in 1918.

During the Korean War, the shipyard was engaged in the activation of ships.

The shipyard was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992.

However, the household was a literate one, subscribing to three newspapers. They were strong Conservatives ; indeed one of the largest and last ships launched by the Bennett shipyard ( in 1869 ) was the Sir John A. Macdonald.

The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reported, in 1953, that Italians working at the World War I era shipyard in Philadelphia, known as Hog Island where emergency shipping was produced for the war effort, introduced the sandwich, by putting various meats, cheeses, and lettuce between two slices of bread.

* was built at the Vuosaari shipyard in Helsinki.

The first submarine that this shipyard built was ( originally ) named the Holland VI, later called.

A naval arsenal and shipyard was built in 1599, and small sheltered harbour, the Veille Darse, was built in 1604 – 1610 to protect ships from the wind and sea.

The shipyard was greatly enlarged by Cardinal Richelieu, who wished to make France into a Mediterranean naval power.

A British naval base, including a large shipyard and a naval hospital, was established at Esquimalt, in 1865 and eventually taken over by the Canadian military.

Instead he was sent to inspect the shipyard facilities in Texas and on the West Coast.

During one of these trips, the presence of Zaharoff was detected in the shipyard where the Spanish submarine was built, but the Spanish authorities " covered " the matter.

The shipyard was again expanded in World War II, doubling its physical size, and greatly expanding its productive capacity.

By the turn of the century, the shipyard had expanded in area and employment had more than doubled to 3, 500.

The 1820s saw the birth of the area's renowned shipbuilding tradition when John Laird opened his shipyard in Birkenhead, later expanded by his son William.

The yard flourished during the post-war " economic miracle " of the 1960s, with the construction of freighters and tankers, and again expanded by opening a shipyard in Hamburg.

The brickyard was closed down in 1981, but the shipyard continued to be expanded until the end of the Soviet occupation and remains until this day the main employer in town.

The population of Seabrook rose from 200 to 560 before the Great Depression, but fell to 200 in 1936, and remained at 400 from 1940 until 1947, when the Albert and Ernest Fay shipyard opened.

During 1940, the expansion of the American defense-industrial complex in preparation for entrance into World War II resulted in a massive increase in the number of employees at the Richmond shipyard.

The medical system devised for shipyard workers became the basis for the giant Kaiser Permanente HMO, which has a large medical center at MacArthur and Broadway, the first to be established by Kaiser.

It later became one of Norway's most important industrial centres, famous for its large shipyard, Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted.

The shipyard became one of the few that built and overhauled nuclear submarines, including several UGM-27 Polaris submarines.

But when it soon became necessary to enlarge the shipyard additional terrain was bought in the following years.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

His next project was to develop Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, which became the world's largest shipyard.

This brought about many jobs of stone cutting and shipyard work and helped facilitate the Hummelstown Brownstone Company which became the leading employer of Hummelstown residents.

Chester's naval shipyard supplied the Union during the Civil War, and the United States in subsequent wars until the shipyard at Philadelphia became dominant after World War II.

This shipyard became a prosperous naval and merchant facility for the British Crown.

Charles Mark Palmer established a shipyard – Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited – in 1852 and became the first armour-plate manufacturer in the world.

The shipyard Westervelt & MacKay, later Westervelt & Sons ( which Westervelt formed with his sons Aaron and Daniel ), became prominent and prospered.

The shipyard was sold and became ' Northwestern Ship repair & Shipbuilders ', which grew into a successful business specialising in ship repair and conversion, including maintenance contracts for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

The shipyard itself became a works for fabricating major engineering structures.

In 1919 he became president of the National Brotherhood of Workers of America, a union which organised amongst African-American shipyard and dock workers in the Tidewater region of Virginia.

Yarrow Shipbuilders was nationalised into British Shipbuilders by the Labour Government headed by Jim Callaghan and was subsequently privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government when the shipyard assets were purchased by GEC Marconi in 1985 ; in 1999 it became part of BAE Systems Marine.

At the formerly sleepy little farming community of Newport News Point, he set about other developments locally there, notably building the landmark Hotel Warwick and founding the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, which became the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States.

Around 1848, it was still a small shipyard city, being awarded city status in 1860, when it became a province capital.

The company had so many orders that it became necessary to construct another large shipyard in nearby Danzig ( Gdańsk ) as well.

It became a prolific shipyard, which made it a prime target of allied bombing in World War II.

Joining the Dale Brothers Circus as a wrestler at age 17, he then went to work at a shipyard and became a police officer, but one day he went to the offices of wrestling promoters Ray and Frank Hanley, who gave him his first match on July 4, 1939, against one Moe Brazen.

The shipyard at Barrow became the Naval Construction Yard.