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Example sentences for: shipbuilding

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Originally a trading post for the French and native peoples, Kingston became a shipbuilding naval base in the War of 1812.
As a source of shipbuilding timber in a key location, the island was a kingpin in the far flung commercial empire, and became the Republic’s first formally constituted overseas colony.
It was a fiercely independent settlement with its own fishing fleet and shipbuilding industry.
New Brunswick Museum (277 Douglas Avenue) is devoted principally to the province’s grand old shipbuilding industry, the source of considerable prosperity before timber had to bow to the new age of steam and steel.
New Brunswick’s shipbuilding timber suffered in the age of steam and steel hulls.