Shipbuilding

9 factories

Harland and Wolff Belfast

ShipbuildingUK

The Belfast yard that built the Olympic class liners, including Titanic, on slipways beneath the giant gantry. The twin yellow cra...

John Brown Clydebank Yard

ShipbuildingUK

The Clydebank yard of the greatest liners: Lusitania, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and QE2 were launched here. The 1907 Titan cant...

Kure Naval Arsenal

ShipbuildingJapan

Imperial Navy arsenal that built the battleship Yamato, the largest warship ever constructed, launched in great secrecy in 1940. K...

Newport News Shipbuilding

ShipbuildingUSA

Founded by railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington on the James River. The sole builder of United States Navy nuclear aircraft car...

Brooklyn Navy Yard

ShipbuildingUSA

National shipyard that built and outfitted warships from the age of sail through the Iowa class battleships. Decommissioned in 196...

Gdansk Shipyard

ShipbuildingPoland

The Lenin Shipyard where strikes in August 1980, led by Lech Walesa, forced the first independent union in the Soviet bloc and cra...

Chatham Dockyard

ShipbuildingUK

A Royal Navy dockyard on the River Medway for more than four centuries, where HMS Victory was launched in 1765. It built sailing w...

Meyer Werft Papenburg

ShipbuildingGermany

A family shipyard founded in 1795 in the inland town of Papenburg, now one of the leading builders of large cruise ships. Its gian...

Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard

ShipbuildingJapan

Begun by the Tokugawa shogunate as an iron works in 1857 and later taken over by Mitsubishi, this yard became the cradle of modern...