With pride the iron shipbuilders of the Delaware point to the increase of their business, infinitesimal as it is, compared to the ever multiplying production of British shipyards.
The interests of our whole people are paramount to theirs as were those of the English people in 1849, when the proportion of their shipbuilderswas greatly beyond that of ours at this day.
Were this true, it might be said that ship-owners and the general public have some rights that shipbuilders are bound to respect.
Naturally, from the few iron shipbuilders in this country, the chief of whom happens to be an Irishman.
The shipbuilders have already had exceptional legislation by a considerable remission of duties in their favor.
Now, why cannot American shipbuilders compete on equal terms with those of Great Britain?
A subsidy given for the protection or the assistance of shipbuilders is a downright robbery of the people's purse.
Master shipbuildersturned out vessels manned, owned and operated by Alexandrians.
Orphan boys were sometimes apprenticed to these shipbuilders until they reached the age of twenty-one.
Late Secretary to the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
Let our shipbuilders and employers take warning in time.
Even more energetic in taking profit from the sea were the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1629, bringing carpenters and shipbuilders with them to hew the pine and oak so close at hand into keelsons, frames, and planking.
Nothing could have been more unexpected than to find that, for once, the experienced shipbuilders had been guilty of a miscalculation.
The conviction gradually dawned that Fisher and his shipbuildershad counted absolutely on the belief that Germany would not be able to build any big fighting ships.
The fugitives were fast clippers of the models that made Maine shipbuilders famous, until the inauguration of steam-navigation made a gracefully modelled hull immaterial as compared with powerful machinery.
The stern lessons of the great war had taught shipbuilders that wooden ships were a thing of the past.
The demand was of course far in excess of the facilities of the factory, and many were the make-shifts that shipbuilders were forced to.
Many mariners and some shipbuilders were at one time quick to express a pronounced opinion that it was quite unnatural for an iron ship to remain afloat.
Ship-owning firms and shipbuilders will probably soon be compelled to keep the modern steel sailing-ship within more moderate dimensions.
They would give employment to many of our enterprising shipbuilders and mechanics and greatly facilitate and enlarge our commerce in the Pacific.
The Mediaeval shipbuilders in striving to improve their craft, making them as seaworthy and as spacious as possible, first added decks, and then built towering superstructures at bow and stern.
The tendency of shipbuilders during the later Greek period was to build large, unwieldy boats, which used sails under favorable circumstances, but depended entirely upon oars for manoeuvering in battle.
SHIPS BUILT OF IRON AND STEEL Even before the introduction of steam as a motive power for boats shipbuilders had been casting about for some satisfactory substitute for wood in the construction of vessels.
One of the circumstances which troubled Pett so much at this time, was the strenuous opposition of the other shipbuilders to his plans of the great ship.
The late Isambard Kingdon Brunel is entitled to the credit of having first directed the attention of shipbuilders to this important invention.
William and Robert Tindall, the former of whom resided in London; he was one of the half-dozen great shipbuilders and owners who founded "Lloyd's.
She was thus seen by shipowners, marine engineers, and shipbuilders in every part of the kingdom.
The industry of the inhabitants of Cyprus, even at that early period, attained such celebrity, that Semiramis obtained shipbuilders from Kiti to be employed on the banks of the Euphrates.
BK] Complaints against these new regulations were promptly raised by shipbuilders and ship-outfitters,[BK] and in 1870 a Parliamentary inquiry into their grievances was made.
In this way, and in this way only, will our shipbuilders be enabled to obtain our materials at the prices at which they are sold to foreign shipbuilders.
There were so many shipbuilders of the name of Phineas Pett, that it is often difficult to trace the history of any one of them.
Sir Anthony Deane was one of the most accomplished shipbuilders of his time, and a valuable public servant, but he did not escape persecution.
So he called together all theshipbuilders in the land, and gave them orders to begin the ship without delay.
So he called together all the shipbuilders in the kingdom, and gave orders that a new ship should be built.
So he called together all the shipbuilders throughout the country, and gave them orders to build a ship which should float on the land as well as on the sea.
You see," continued the capitalist, "the ship came in answer to a circular sent out by our government to various shipbuilders asking bids from swift and reliable boats to carry our mails to England.
In the meantime shipbuilders on both sides of the Atlantic were studying the steamboat problem and busy brains in Nova Scotia and on the Clyde were working out an answer to the puzzle.
The phrase not only caught the public fancy but that of the shipbuilders as well, and the word schooner was quickly adopted.
Indeed there was no denying that this innovation presented to shipbuilders a multitude of new and balking problems.
Canadian shipbuilders had some drawbacks to contend with.
The relationship between the royal shipwrights and the commercialshipbuilders was at all times very close.
Shipbuilders find that there are three things which retard a ship's movement: skin friction, or friction between the water and the sides of the ship; wave making at the bow and eddy making at the stern.
Will be of great service to paint manufacturers, engineering contractors, ironfounders, shipbuildersand others.
Herr Andés' book, written purely from a scientific standpoint, will be particularly useful to iron manufacturers, shipbuilders and shipowners.
The Navigation Acts, for example, redounded to the advantage of American shipbuilders and the producers of hemp, tar, lumber, and ship stores in general.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipbuilders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
