Building a Shipyard

Biohazard · 1 May 2007 at 22:08

Ricochet J said:
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?

Your an idiot, READ A BOOK!

They used WOOD!

KennyBhoy · 1 May 2007 at 22:08

Biohazard said:
Thats ship construction, not dockyard construction

I'll need to dig up some OAP that was around to see the Yards being built to ask them then

Jokester · 1 May 2007 at 22:09

Ricochet J said:
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?

They didn't build ships out of steel hundreds of years ago. Mainly just made out of wood.

Jokester

Ricochet J · 1 May 2007 at 22:09

Jokester said:
They didn't build ships out of steel hundreds of years ago. Mainly just made out of wood.

Jokester

NOW I feel stupid...

Edit: Don's please lock!

Edit 2: It was a blonde moment.

"andy" · 1 May 2007 at 22:09

Ricochet J said:
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?

they didnt have steel ships a few hundred years ago either

lol im too slow

Akira · 1 May 2007 at 22:10

Biohazard said:
Oh. Well what a stupid stupid stupid question.

What a clever clever clever person you must be.

Shipyards are constructed by the sea or by tidal rivers to allow easy access for their ships. In the United Kingdom, 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 - the latter growing to be the World's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre. 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 built, and the naval dockyard at Chatham, England on the Medway in north Kent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard

Hope that helps answer your question, I don't imagine building a shipyard would be much different to building any other large industrial installation. You'd have to use wet-setting cement, though, obviously.

Loki · 1 May 2007 at 22:11

Ricochet You do know the Vikings had things called ships and they were made of wood a long time before all this metal stuff

fini · 1 May 2007 at 22:19

Ricochet J said:
they didn't have cranes, cars or aeroplanes to put a 4 ton steel girder in place at the sea did they?

I think everyone missed this as they were busy mocking the 'steel girder' part of it.

How old do you think cranes are? There have been cranes since 515BC! They're not exactly the most complicated thing in the world...

fini

Nash · 1 May 2007 at 22:22

fini said:
How old do you think cranes are? There have been cranes since 515BC! They're not exactly the most complicated thing in the world...

fini

Piece of cake! If it's so easy, build me a crane that can hold many tonnes and accurately place it many tens of metres further up. And control it remotely. Please!

sanaxe1 · 1 May 2007 at 22:27

Biohazard said:
Your an idiot, READ A BOOK!

They used WOOD!

You get a big fat :rolleyes:

the only idiot i see in this thread is you!

lay-z-boy · 1 May 2007 at 22:31

sanaxe1 said:
You get a big fat the only idiot i see in this thread is you!

No need for that attitude? :confused:

"andy" · 1 May 2007 at 22:32

sanaxe1 said:
You get a big fat the only idiot i see in this thread is you!

erm why ? hes right ,

they didnt make ships or docks with with huge bits of steel hundreds of years ago

sanaxe1 · 1 May 2007 at 22:33

andy said:
erm why ? hes right ,

they didnt make ships or docks with with huge bits of steel hundreds of years ago

theres ways he can say it tho.. Hes called him stupid and a idiot surely therse no need for that?

"andy" · 1 May 2007 at 22:35

agreed but it was a silly post from the OP

Azagoth · 1 May 2007 at 23:01

sanaxe1 said:
theres ways he can say it tho.. Hes called him stupid and a idiot surely therse no need for that?

fini · 1 May 2007 at 23:06

Nash said:
Piece of cake! If it's so easy, build me a crane that can hold many tonnes and accurately place it many tens of metres further up. And control it remotely. Please!

Just because I can't physically build a crane myself doesn't mean that it's 'difficult'. As I said, they were doing it for over 500 years before Jesus was even born. As engineering tasks go, a crane isn't difficult.

fini

Fuzz · 2 May 2007 at 01:10

Biohazard said:
Your an idiot, READ A BOOK!

They used WOOD!

Two short planks of it I reckon....

PinkPig · 2 May 2007 at 08:49

I don't think it's a stupid question - the idea of most big constructions projects seem pretty amazing to me. When you consider that some pretty massive and impressive things were being built hundreds of years ago I do end up wondering how it ever got planned or built. I guess plenty of ambition, taking some risks, and lots of cheap labour that you don't care too much about helped a lot!

Spleenus · 2 May 2007 at 08:53

I don't think the op asked a stupid question, not everyone is blessed with the insane amounts of knowledge everyone on here seems to be blessed with.