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Definition: Shipyard |
ShipyardNoun1. A workplace where ships are built or repaired. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shipyard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
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Dockyards and shipyards are places which build and repair ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial construction. The terms are routinely used intechangeably, in part because the evolution of dockyards and shipyards has often caused them to change or merge roles.Countries with large ship building industries include Japan and Poland. The ship building industry tends to be more fragmented in Europe than in Asia. In European countries there are more smaller companies, compared to the fewer, larger companies in the ship building countries of Asia.
Most ship builders in the United States are privately owned, the largest being Northrop Grumman a multi-billion dollar 'defence enterprise'. The publicly owned shipyards in the US are Naval facilities providing basing, support and repair.
Shipyards are constructed by the sea or by tidal rivers to allow easy access for their ships. In Great Britain, for example, shipyards were established on the River Thames (King Henry VIII founded yards at Woolwich and Deptford in 1512 and 1513 respectively), River Mersey, River Tyne, River Wear and River Clyde). Sir Alfred Yarrow established his yard by the Thames in London's Docklands in the late 19th century before moving it northwards to the banks of the Clyde at Scotstoun (1906-08). Other famous UK shipyards include the Harland and Wolff yard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the Titanic was launched, and the naval dockyard at Chatham, England on the Medway in north Kent.
The site of a large shipyard will contain many specialised craness, dry docks, dust-free warehouses, painting facilities and extremely large areas for fabrication of the ships.
History
Ships were the first items to be manufactured in a factory, several hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, in the Venice Arsenal, Venice, Italy. The Arsenal apparently mass produced nearly one ship every day using pre-manufactured parts, and assembly lines and, at its height, employed 16,000 people.
Prominent dockyards and shipyards
Devonport Dockyard [1] [1], located in the city of Plymouth, England in the county of Devon is the largest naval base in Western Europe. It has 15 dry docks, four miles of waterfront, 25 tidal berths, five basins and covers 650 acres. It is the main refitting base for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and also handles work on frigates. It is the base for seven of the Trafalgar class nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines and many frigates, exploiting it's convenient access to the Atlantic Ocean. It supports the Vanguard class Trident missile nuclear ballistic missile submarines in a custom-built refitting dock. It houses HMS Courageous, a nuclear powered submarine used in the Falklands War and open to the general public[1]. Facilities in the local area also include a major naval training establishment and the base for the Royal Marines.
Newport News Shipbuilding, part of Northrop Grumman, is the largest private ship builder in the US and the one best known for its unique capacity to build the Nimitz class aircraft carriers.
Ingalls Shipbuilding, part of Northrop Grumman, located in Pascagoula, Mississippi repaired the USS Cole and builds offshore drilling rigs, cruise ships and naval vessels.
Yantai Raffles [1] is the largest ship builder in China. It has built numerous cargo ships, tugboats and support vessels, as well as pleasure vessels such as yachts.
See also
- Ship-building
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Shipyard is a village in the Orange Walk District of Belize. In the 2000 census, Shipyard had a population of 2,385 people. Most of the population are MennoniteSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shipyard, Belize."
Crosswords: Shipyard |
| English words defined with "shipyard": naval shipyard, navy yard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shipyard": Cammel Laird, Construction Differential Subsidy, crane rigger ♦ ELECTRICIAN HELPER, ELECTRICIAN SUPERVISOR ♦ hook tender ♦ Newport New Shipbuilding, Newport News Shipbuilding ♦ PAINTER HELPER, SHIPYARD, PAINTER, SHIPYARD ♦ WELDING SUPERVISOR ♦ yard rigger. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Shipyard Symphony (1942) Prince Henry at Cramp's Shipyard (1902) Cramp's Shipyard (1899) View of Cramp's Shipyard (1898) | |
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 | "Figure-heads of Old Sailing Vessels in Krum Bay Shipyard, St. Thomas." In: "The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands", by Theodoor De Booy and John T. Faris, 1918. J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. P. 117. Library Call Number C/hc100 V81 B. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Research Vessel GEORGE M. BOWERS in shipyard. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | The NOAA Ship RESEARCHER being maneuvered by harbor tugs while in shipyard. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Shipyard worker at his rural home. Newport News, VA. May 1942. Credit: USDA. |
 | Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918. The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly (DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively. The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull # 267, which served as USS Katrina Luckenbach in 1918-19. Most of the equipment on the pier is for her. Note the large submarine being built in the background, under the revolving crane. Credit: NAVY. |  | Off Staten Island, New York, upon completion of construction by the Bethlehem Steel Company's Staten Island Shipyard, 12 February 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In the shipyard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Jennie Mae Turner, welder at the Ingalls shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Three American women, workers in a shipyard in Texas, on their way to share a lunch period together. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pay day at the shipyard, Newport News, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rope a dope" by Christo Pacheco Commentary: "Shipyard workers in Newport News, VA, USA." |
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Business | Due to rapidly increasing local labor costs, the local shipyard industry has experienced a big shakeout. (references) | |
Such work is much sought after by Chinese shipyards for its high profit margins, and for the technology it brings to the shipyard. (references) | ||
The other marinas have premises with a combined design to satisfy the needs of the different size vessels, a club house, swimming pool, gas station, shipyard for basic maintenance and a complete network of services to provide for the needs of a population of 350 vessels. (references) | ||
Economic History | Azerbaijan | The DSS-20, a new semi-submersible drilling rig, is currently under construction in a Baku shipyard - the first new rig to be built in the Caspian in over ten years. (references) |
Poland | On August 31, 1980, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, led by an electrician named Lech Walesa, signed a 21-point agreement with the government that ended their strike. (references) | |
Romania | Large successful privatizations in 2000 included just Braila Shipyard, Tulcea Shipyard, aircraft manufacturer Aerostar Bacau, bearing manufacturer Rulmenti Barlad, oil refinery Petromidia, and oil drilling equipment manufacturer Upetrom. (references) | |
Political Economy | FINLAND | The EU decided that payment of shipyard subsidies would end at the end of year 2000. According to Finland's year 2000 supplementary budget, subsidies were granted on ship orders up to a total value of FIM 6 billion ($930 million) and the industry granted an appropriation of FIM 140 ($21.7) million, in order to secure the competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | Foreign ownership of 30 percent is allowed for advertising agencies, while 40 percent foreign participation is allowed in natural resource extraction (the president may authorize 100 percent foreign ownership), educational institutions, express delivery, public utilities (including telecommunications, shipping, and shipyard operation, for example), commercial deep sea fishing, government procurement contracts, rice and corn processing (after 30 years of operation, before which time 100 percent foreign participation is allowed), and ownership of private lands. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | In 2000, exemptions from import duties, as well as the VAT, were created for certain import contracts for shipyard equipment through January 1, 2005, under a law giving state support to the shipbuilding sector. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cameroon | In mid-March workers of the Naval Shipyard launched a strike following the dismissal of two labor representatives. (references) |
Romania | After an explosion killed 10 workers in the port of Constanta on June 5, workers at the shipyard protested against the lack of safety equipment and violations of safety procedures by management. (references) | |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | Six months ago, early in this season of change, I stood at the gates of the Gdansk shipyard in Poland at the monument to the fallen workers of Solidarity. |
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| "Shipyard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shipyard" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 178 | 23,220 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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| China | Guangzhou Shipyard International Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "shipyard": naval shipyard. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "shipyard": ex-shipyard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shipyard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kantier detar (boatyard, dockyard, way). (various references) | |
Arabic | ورشة تصليح وترميم السفن, حوض بناء السفن (dockyard). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | корабостроителница (shipbuilding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 造船厂. (various references) | |
Czech | lodìnice (dockyard). (various references) | |
Danish | skibsvaerft. (various references) | |
Dutch | scheepwerf. (various references) | |
Farsi | محل کشتی سازی , کارخانه کشتی سازی (Dockyard). (various references) | |
Finnish | telakka (dock), laivanveistämö. (various references) | |
French | chantier naval. (various references) | |
German | Schiffswerft, Schiffwerft. (various references) | |
Greek | ναυπηγείο (dockyard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבדוק (dock), מספנה (dock, dockyard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hajógyár (dockyard, yard), hajójavító műhely (dockyard). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kalangan (arena, circle, drydock, realm), galangan kapal (dock, dock yard, graving dock), galangan (dry dock, slip). (various references) | |
Italian | cantiere navale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 造船所 (dock yard, shipbuilding yard). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞうせんしょ (dock yard, shipbuilding yard), ぞうせんじょ (dock yard, shipbuilding yard). (various references) | |
Korean | 조선소. (various references) | |
Manx | lhong-chaardee (boatyard), garey yiarn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ipyardshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estaleiro (dock, dockyard). (various references) | |
Romanian | şantier naval (dockyard). (various references) | |
Russian | верфь (dockyard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brodogradilište (dockyard, navy yard, ship-building). (various references) | |
Spanish | astillero (boatyard, dockyard, stocks). (various references) | |
Swedish | varv (circuit, course, docks, lap, layer, Rev, revolution, round, row, shipbuilding yard, turn, wind), skeppsvarv (dockyard). (various references) | |
Turkish | tersane (dock, dockyard, navy yard, yard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | верф (dock, dockyard, doctor, wharf). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xưởng đóng tàu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shipyard": shipyards. (additional references) | |
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"Shipyard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sheepard, Shiphard, Shqiptare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shipyard" (pronounced shi"pyÄ'rd) |
| 4 | -y Ä' r d | backyard, barnyard, boatyard, brickyard, churchyard, courtyard, junkyard, lumberyard, dockyard, farmyard, graveyard, schoolyard, stockyard, willyard. |
| 3 | -Ä' r d | bankcard, bodyguard, Boulevard, diehard, leotard, lifeguard, postcard, safeguard, scorecard, vanguard. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: syrphid. | |
-2 letters: aphids, dryish, hydras, hydria, parish, radish, raphis, rapids, shaird, sharpy, sparid, yairds. | |
-3 letters: aphid, aphis, apish, dairy, daisy, dashi, dashy, diary, dishy, drays, drips, hairs, hairy, hards, hardy, harps, harpy, hydra, padis, padri, pairs, pardi, pards, pardy, paris, prays, raids, rapid, raspy, sapid, sayid, shady, shard, sharp, spahi, spiry, spray, yaird. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dysphoria, shipyards. | |
+2 letters: dysphorias. | |
+3 letters: discography, hypermedias. | |
+4 letters: hydropathies, hydrophobias, parathyroids, paratyphoids, spheroidally. | |
+5 letters: hydrographies, hypochondrias, pharyngitides, rhapsodically. | |
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