shipbuilders
Craft yard workers
Shipbuilders are people or companies that construct ships.
The term covers everyone from individual craftsmen building wooden boats to massive industrial operations producing ocean liners, cargo vessels, and warships.
The shipbuilders along the river employed thousands of workers.
A region's shipbuilders often define its economic identity: Glasgow's shipbuilders once led the world.
Drained basin for hull work
- keelHull's structural base
- hullOuter covering or frame
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- cranesLifting machines or birds
welding · riveting · plating · bulkheads · frames · sections · assembly · fabrication
Those who fuse metals
- fittersThose who adjust fit
- riggersThose who install cables
- platersMetal coating workers
- electriciansTradespeople handling power systems
pipefitters · foremen · designers · drafters · inspectors · union · overalls · contracts
Outer covering or frame
- keelHull's structural base
- bowRespectful forward inclination
- sternStrict or ship's aft
- deckShip's flat surface
rudder · bulkhead · superstructure · bridge · hold · propeller · funnel · gangway
Technical construction drawings
- CADTechnical drawing technology
- hydrodynamicsScience of liquid motion
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
- stabilityResistance to displacement
displacement · buoyancy · automation · vibration · acoustics · tonnage
drydock
Drained basin for hull work
- keelHull's structural base
- hullOuter covering or frame
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
cranes · welding · riveting · plating · bulkheads · frames · sections · assembly · fabrication · outfitting
welders
Those who fuse metals
electricians · pipefitters · foremen · designers · drafters · inspectors · union · overalls · contracts · layoffs
hull
Outer covering or frame
deck · rudder · bulkhead · superstructure · bridge · hold · propeller · funnel · gangway · hatch
blueprints
Technical construction drawings
- CADTechnical drawing technology
- hydrodynamicsScience of liquid motion
- propulsionForce driving movement forward
stability · displacement · buoyancy · automation · vibration · acoustics · tonnage
apprenticeship
Learning trade through employment
- loftingFull-scale curved drafting
- caulkingMaterial for sealing gaps
- plankingWooden boards collectively
rigging · restoration · preservation · adze · oakum · schooner · clipper · galleon · frigate · bark
- VikingsViking, longships, longship, raiding, Norse settlers
- maritime communitysailors, fishermen, captain, crew, dock workers
- seafaring peoplessailors, navigators, Vikings, fishermen, Polynesians
- shipbuildingshipyards, dockyards, dockyard, hull, hulls
- colonial workersblacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, coopers, craftsmen
- Defense ContractorsLockheed Martin, Raytheon, RTX, Boeing, Thales
shipbuildersshipbreakers
Those who dismantle vessels
shipwreckers · sailors · seafarers · scrappers · mariners