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16419 Kovalev

It is named after Sergej Nikitich Kovalev, a Russian shipbuilder and engineer at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

1822 in Canada

November 1 - Lemuel Owen, shipbuilder, banker, merchant, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1912)

Addey

Addey and Stanhope School, Deptford, London, England - named for the shipbuilder

Basil Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson of Ayot

In 1927 Sanderson married Evelyn Constance Ismay (1897–1940), daughter of shipbuilder J. Bruce Ismay who was the managing director of the White Star Line.

CC-class submarine

They were originally purchased by the province of British Columbia from a shipbuilder in Seattle, Washington, which had built the submarines for the Chilean Navy.

Chamberlain River

It is thought that the river was named after either the shipbuilder, William Chamberlain or the politician Joseph Chamberlain.

Daniel Parker

Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781–1850), merchant, shipbuilder and businessman in Boston, Massachusetts

David Hawley

Hawley's grandfather was Gideon, his great grandfather was Ephraim and his great great grandfather was Joseph Hawley, a shipbuilder and the first of the name in America.

Davie Yards Incorporated

The Canadian engineering conglomerate SNC-Lavalin, Upper Lakes Groups Inc. and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) will partner in a joint venture.

East Kent College

It was named after shipbuilder Sir Alfred Yarrow, who provided funds for the construction of the building as a children’s convalescent home in 1895.

Ethel Rolt Wheeler

She was the granddaughter of the Cork shipbuilder Joseph Wheeler on her paternal side and author and anti-Corn law propagandist, William Cooke Taylor on her maternal side.

George Burton Hunter

Sir George Burton Hunter, KBE (19 December 1845 – 21 January 1937) was a British shipbuilder based on Tyneside.

Georges Philippar

Georges Philippar, born on 16 October 1883 in Fontenay-aux-Roses, was a French shipbuilder.

Great Village

Foremost among them was the shipbuilder John M. Blaikie who built a massive four-masted barque named after himself in 1885, the barque John M. Blaikie.

Harima Province

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, a shipbuilder and major Boeing engine subcontractor gets its name from the province.

HDMS Sophia Amalia

The ship was built at Hovedøen in Christiania under the direction of English shipbuilder James Robbins and was launched in 1650.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, the largest Chinese shipbuilder has set up a joint-venture with the Czech company České loděnice (Czech Shipyard) in Děčín with investment of more than one billion CZK and the creation of 500 jobs in the first stage.

Icebreaker

Built on the orders of merchant and shipbuilder Mikhail Britnev, it had the bow altered to achieve an ice-clearing capability (20° raise from keel line).

John Oehler

After leaving football, he built a career in sales with shipbuilder Dravo Corporation.

Lawrencetown, County Down

Lawrencetown was also the birthplace of William Dawson Lawrence (1817-1886), a successful shipbuilder, businessman and politician in Canada, who is reported to have built the largest wooden ship in the world in 1874.

Loren Leman

Loren Dwight Leman (born December 2, 1950) was the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, traces his family history in Alaska to a marriage in Kodiak more than 200 years ago between a Russian shipbuilder and an Alutiiq woman from Afognak.

Marine steam engine

The Philadelphian shipbuilder Charles H. Cramp blamed America's general lack of competitiveness with the British shipbuilding industry in the mid-to-late 19th century upon the conservatism of American domestic shipbuilders and shipping line owners, who doggedly clung to outdated technologies like the walking beam and its associated paddlewheel long after they had been abandoned in other parts of the world.

Marlboro Packard

Marlboro Packard (August 19, 1828 - February 4, 1904) was a master shipbuilder who lived in Searsport, Maine.

Michael Goodliffe

His best-known film was A Night to Remember (1958), in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic.

Museum of Military History, Vienna

Other notable exhibits include the huge medieval bombard, Pumhart von Steyr, the original shipbuilder's model of the battleship SMS Viribus Unitis, flagship of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet during World War I, a French observation balloon, the oldest surviving European aircraft, L'Intrépide, and the wreck of SM U-20, an Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine sunk in combat in 1918.

MV Loch Linnhe

MV Loch Linnhe was the second of four drive-through ferries built in the 1980s by Dunston’s of Hessle, to cope with increasing traffic on CalMac's smaller routes.

MV Loch Ranza

MV Loch Ranza was the last of four drive-through ferries built in the 1980s by Dunston’s of Hessle, to cope with increasing traffic on CalMac's smaller routes.

MV Loch Riddon

MV Loch Riddon was the third of four drive-through ferries built in the 1980s by Dunston’s of Hessle, to cope with increasing traffic on CalMac's smaller routes.

MV Loch Striven

MV Loch Striven was the first of four drive-through ferries built in the 1980s by Dunston’s of Hessle, to cope with increasing traffic on CalMac's smaller routes.

National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital

The National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital was founded in May 1849 by the English shipbuilder and politician George Frederick Young as a pressure group advocating protectionism.

Port Weller

Port Weller Drydocks, a shipbuilder located on the Welland Canal at the Lake Ontario entrance

R and W Hawthorn

In 1870 they built St. Peter's Works adjoining that of Robert Stephenson and Company and in 1880 amalgamated with the shipbuilder A. Leslie and Company, to become Hawthorn Leslie and Company.

Russell Rea

Rea was the third son of Daniel Key Rea from Eskdale in Cumberland and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Liverpool shipbuilder Joseph Russell.

Skeppar Olofs Gränd

He is historically known as one of the leading figures in the organisation of the first fleet of the Swedish Navy, both as a master shipbuilder and as a naval commander.

Statue of John Laird

He was born in Greenock, Scotland, and moved with his family as a child, first to Liverpool, then in 1824 to Birkenhead, where his father, William, founded a shipbuilding business.

TID-class tug

Richard Dunston Ltd., a ship-building company with yards at Thorne on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal and at Hessle on the Humber, had pioneered the use of welded construction, rather than the more conventional rivetting, since 1933, although they had never built an all-welded vessel.

Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island

Some famous Islanders hailing from, or who have hailed from, the community include 'Dambuster' F/O Vincent Sanford MacCausland, former Premier Keith Milligan, former Dean of McGill Law, Percy Ellwood Corbett, Member of Parliament Joseph McGuire, Island visual artist Charlene Williams, historic shipbuilder James Yeo, and deceased folk artist Larry Gorman.

William Denny

William Denny and Brothers, British shipbuilder based in Dumbarton, Scotland

William Phips

Of humble origin and poorly educated, he was a shipbuilder in Boston before embarking on several treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies.


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