The new nation was a seafaring one, amassing great wealth from ship-building, whaling, fishing and maritime trade.
This is where the Navy is at a critical junction with its proposed ship-building plan.
Given the gloom, continued ship-building will only put off the day when the world's lines make serious money again.
Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, to go along, apparently by brazenly transferring missile defense monies to ship-building and other member-directed priorities.
Brian Cullin is with Northrop Grumman which employs upwards of 20, 000 people at its various ship-building operations along the Gulf Coast.
Appledore Shipbuilders was founded in 1855 and the firm had one of the biggest enclosed ship-building facilities in Britain in the 1960s.
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During the 18th and 19th centuries, improvements in ship-building technology and the repeal of protectionist trade laws made it easier and easier for people to ship goods over great distances.
Most think of Marco Polo as Venetian, but although he set off from the Italian city for his great Asian odyssey, and lived there later in life, evidence points to his origins in a ship-building family from here, the coast of Dalmatia.
He also drew worrisome parallels between the CTBT and the London and Washington Naval Agreements of the 1920s and '30s which served to restrain the democracies' ship-building programs while Germany and Japan flouted their terms, building larger and more powerful navies that had to be dealt with subsequently by the allies at great expense in terms of both in lives and national treasure.
The Western Morning News is still the flagship of the press in the region, despite the fact it is no longer printed at its ship-shaped building.
China is building its own stealth fighters and ship-killing missiles as part of an effort to force the U.S. to operate further from its shores.
To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.
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Trustees had hoped the building set to house the hull of the 500-year-old ship would be ready in 2012 for the 30th anniversary of the wreck's discovery.
Mark Zuckerberg said during the launch that Facebook had never seen the point of building an actual phone, since a handset with decent sales would ship 20-30 million units.
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