ship construction

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Introduction
The naval architect
Shipbuilding
- The shipyard
  - Organization
  - Layout
- Planning
  - From contract to working plans
  - The lines plan and fairing
- Fabrication and assembly
- Launching, outfitting, and trials
  - Launching
  - Outfitting
  - Trials

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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William Adams

English navigator

Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews

Irish ship designer

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Thomas Augustus Watson

American industrialist

William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie

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Canadian shipwright

William Francis Gibbs

American architect and engineer

Henry J. Kaiser

American industrialist

John Fitch

John Fitch

American industrialist

Isherwood, B.F.

B. F. Isherwood

United States naval engineer

Eugène Schneider

French industrialist

Dinis

Dinis

king of Portugal

Kenneth Colin Irving

Canadian industrialist

William Fairbairn

British engineer

Robert Livingston Stevens

American engineer

Donald McKay

American naval architect

William Symington

British engineer

Joshua Humphreys

American ship designer

John Willis Griffiths

American naval architect

Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans

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