The Navigation Acts, for example, redounded to the advantage of American shipbuilders and the producers of hemp, tar, lumber, and ship stores in general.
Men and animals transported the logs to the coasts, where the shipbuilders constructed a number of new large warships and smaller cutters in great haste.
As a shipbuilder, Cockerell was trying to find a solution to the problem of the wave resistance which wastes a good deal of a surface ship's power and limits its speed.
Compare this to the reports that 2019 that the U.S. navy just paid Virginia shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls $15 billion to start construction on the new Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers.
Going into Cannes or Nice, Dick and Nicole met new people--members of orchestras, restaurateurs, horticultural enthusiasts, shipbuilders--for Dick had bought an old dinghy--and members of the Syndicat d'Initiative.