The major advantage that Europe had was in ship building.
Some ship building and repair still goes on in the harbour.
But ship building was the principal business, with eight large vessels built in 1880.
The history of the city has always been closely connected to the ship building.
The people are engaged in ship building and farming to some extent.
He later even went into the business of ship building.
This decade saw a considerable increase in military ship building.
You knew of this ship building and took steps to counter it.
From its location, ship building became an important industry in the early 1800s.
In the nineteenth century, the river was an important scene of wooden ship building.