Building a Shipyard

[Ricochet J]

I always wondered, how the hell did nations build shipyards around their coast to build ships? I've always wondered that! Anyone know?

 

[Jokester]

Would be a bit pointless building them inland surely?

Jokester

 

[Dunks]

What a silly question?

 

[Biohazard]

You've lost me..

As in how did they manage to build them years back? Well it wasn't that hard really.

Other than that. You've lost me.

 

[SideWinder]

I don't actually understand the question. Although i am quite tired...

 

[vincent1989]

I always wondered, how the hell did nations build shipyards around their coast to build ships? I've always wondered that! Anyone know?

www.google.com
then search for chacha, and get them to do it for you

 

[Ricochet J]

Not in land silly. I mean around the coast of the nation. I mean, they didn't just stumble accross a dock and thought "we'd build ships here" Surely they had to move things around etc.

 

[SideWinder]

Not in land silly. I mean around the coast of the nation. I mean, they didn't just stumble accross a dock and thought "we'd build ships here" Surely they had to move things around etc.

Mm..it's the same with things like airports, roads, buildings....it all had to be built from scratch. /nods.

 

["andy"]

Not in land silly. I mean around the coast of the nation. I mean, they didn't just stumble accross a dock and thought "we'd build ships here" Surely they had to move things around etc.

eh ?

they find a good river

build a dock/shipyards

build a town around it for workers to live

i still dont really get the question

if you mean how did they transport material there ? then most the main shipbuilding towns i know of had mines/quarrys etc nearby , trains or river would be used i guess

 

[fini]

Surely they had to move things around etc.

So?

 

[Loki]

Must be something the Swiss Navy have pondered for years

 

[semi-pro waster]

Do you mean how do you physically build a shipyard? Or why are they located in say Belfast or Glasgow?

 

[Biohazard]

He means geographical locations?

Well take Scotland, once great for shipbuilding. Mainly the clyde river, as its easy to syphon water off into concrette docks.

Forth as well, again a river that slowly thins as it progresses inwards.

That what you mean?

 

[Ricochet J]

Do you mean how do you physically build a shipyard? Or why are they located in say Belfast or Glasgow?

Yup. Physically.

 

[Biohazard]

Yup. Physically.

Oh. Well what a stupid stupid stupid question.

 

["andy"]

same as you build anything else ?

 

[KennyBhoy]

To confuse you more then, their not always on the Coast.....I work next door to Yarrows Shipyard on the River Clyde

They seem to move sections of the ships around no problem at Govan shipyard where their actually built......Massive flatbed trucks move the 3 sections of the ship that make the ship up as a whole, down from the plant to the ramp where their put together and launched in to the river

 

[Ricochet J]

Yeh, but back a few hundred years ago when Britain had to build ships to look after their colonies they didn't have cranes, cars or aeroplanes to put a 4 ton steel girder in place at the sea did they?

 

[Biohazard]

To confuse you more then, their not always on the Coast.....I work next door to Yarrows Shipyard on the River Clyde

They seem to move sections of the ships around no problem at Govan shipyard where their actually built......Massive flatbed trucks move the 3 sections of the ship that make the ship up as a whole, down from the plant to the ramp where their put together and launched in to the river

Thats ship construction, not dockyard construction.

Go watch massive props for oil freighters being lorried out of Brown Bro's..

 

[Loki]

Yup. Physically.

Seriously ?