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Dublin Shipyards

Feb 22nd

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Irish Shipbuilding -Miscellaneous Dublin yards – While the main shipbuilding in Dublin Involved the Liffey yard, later Vickers, and Ross & Walpole several early years have disappeared without trace. – This short article remembers some Dublin shipyars

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Concrete ships

Jan 3rd

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During the First world war a shortage of steel developed as replacements were being built for the huge tonnage sunk by submarines. Steel was prioritised for construction of warships. Late in the war the USA envisaged a fleet of concrete ships but few were completed before the war ended.