Metal soon entirely replaced wood as the main material for warship construction.

The design could be built in a yard with little or no experience of warship construction.

However, production did not begin until 1943, due to the higher priority of steel allocated to the Imperial Navy for warship construction.

That wull put paid to most o' our new warship construction, an' one day he'll be able to walk into Avalon essentially unopposed.

The general use of steel in warship construction precluded the use of ramming without danger to the attacking vessel.

In late 1938, Hitler ordered Raeder to accelerate warship construction.

Small-scale warship construction resumed in 1844, but the yard was deemed surplus to requirements and was closed in 1869.

Some of his ideas, such as the incorporation of armor into warship construction, were quite successful and became standard in navies around the world.

His skills required him to play an important role in ironclad warship construction at the yard in 1861 and 1862.

Tirpitz started a programme of warship construction in 1898.