Editing Shipyard (section)

==History==
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The oldest structure sometimes identified as a dockyard{{efn|An alternative classification describes the structure as an irrigation tank.<ref>{{cite journal| last1= Leshnik| first1= Lawrence S.| last2= Junghans| first2= K. H.| title= The Harappan 'Port' at Lothal: Another View| url= https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/aa.1968.70.5.02a00070| journal= American Anthropologist| publication-date= October 1968| volume= 70| issue= 5| pages= 911–922| doi= 10.1525/aa.1968.70.5.02a00070| quote= The settlement in general and the basin in particular do not, in the author's view, appear to meet the requirements of a port. As an alternative, he suggests that the basin could have served as an irrigation tank for a moderately-sized but still rural village.| access-date= 22 May 2024| url-access= subscription}}</ref>
}} was built {{circa | 2400 BC}} by the [[Indus Valley civilisation]] in the [[Bronze Age India|Harappan]] port city of [[Lothal#Dockyard|Lothal]] (in present-day [[Gujarat|Gujarat, India]]).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title= Archaeological remains of a Harappa Port-Town, Lothal|url= https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5918/|access-date= 2022-02-10|publisher= UNESCO World Heritage Centre| quote =  In close proximity to the enclosure identified as a warehouse, along the eastern side where a wharf-like platform, is a basin measuring 217 m long and 26 meters in width, identified as a tidal dock-yard.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://theprint.in/india/governance/this-is-modi-govts-plan-for-indias-first-national-maritime-museum-in-gujarats-lothal/376488/ | title=This is Modi govt's plan for India's first National Maritime Museum in Gujarat's Lothal | date=9 March 2020 | quote = Archaeological excavations discovered the oldest man-made dockyard – over 5,000 years old – in Lothal, located near the village of Saragwala in the Dholka Taluka of Ahmedabad district. [...] It was one of the southernmost cities, and the only port town, in the Indus Valley civilisation. [...] While the city has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site by the Indian government, its application is pending on the United Nation’s tentative list. [...] According to UNESCO, stone anchors, marine shells and seals possibly belonging to the Persian Gulf corroborate the use of the basin as a dockyard where boats would have sailed upstream from the Gulf of Cambay during high tide.}}
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Lothal's dockyards connected to an ancient course of the [[Sabarmati]] river on the trade route between [[Harappa]]n cities in [[Sindh]] and the peninsula of [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] when the present-day surrounding [[Kutch]] desert formed a part of the [[Arabian Sea]].

Lothal engineers accorded high priority to the creation of a dockyard and a [[warehouse]] to serve the purposes of maritime trade.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marine |first=Mega |date=2023-03-11 |title=Lothal: The Maritime Trading Hub of the Indus Valley |url=https://www.shipmachineryparts.com/post/lothal-the-maritime-trading-hub-of-the-indus-valley |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Ship Machinery Parts}}</ref> The dock was built on the eastern flank of the town, and is regarded by archaeologists as an engineering feat of the highest order. It was located away from the main current of the river to avoid silting, but provided access to ships at high tide as well.

The name of the ancient Greek city on the Gulf of Corinth, [[Naupactus]], means "shipyard" (combination of the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ναύς ''naus'': "ship, boat"; and πήγνυμι ''pêgnumi'', ''pegnymi'': "builder, fixer"). Naupactus' reputation in this field extended back into legendary times – the site is traditionally identified by Greek authors such as [[Ephorus]] and [[Strabo]] as the place where a fleet was said to have been built by the legendary [[Heraclidae]]<ref>
{{cite book
 |editor-last1         = Müller
 |editor-first1        = Karl Otfried
 |editor-link1         = Karl Otfried Müller
 |year                 = 2010
 |orig-date            = 1841
 |chapter              = Ephori fragmenta
 |title                = Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=lW_IPqgQolEC
 |location             = Cambridge
 |publisher            = Cambridge University Press
 |page                 = 236
 |isbn                 = 9781108016605
 |access-date          = 23 May 2024
 |quote                = Naupactus, ... sic dicta quod Heraclidae ibi classem compegerint, auctoribus Ephoro et Strabone.
}} 
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to invade the [[Peloponnesus]].

In the Spanish city of [[Barcelona]], the [[Barcelona Royal Shipyard|Drassanes]] shipyards were active from at least the mid-13th century until the 18th century, although at times they served as a barracks for troops as well as an arsenal. During their time of operation the Drassanes were continuously changed, rebuilt and modified, but two original towers and part of the original eight construction-naves remain today. The site is currently a maritime museum.

From the 14th century, several hundred years before the [[Industrial Revolution]], ships were the first items to be manufactured in a [[factory]] – in the [[Venice Arsenal]] of the [[Venetian Republic]] in present-day [[Italy]]. The Arsenal apparently [[mass production|mass-produced]] nearly one ship every day using [[American system of manufacturing|pre-manufactured parts]] and [[assembly line]]s. At its height in the 16th century the enterprise employed 16,000 people.

Spain built component ships of the [[Spanish Armada|Great Armada]] of 1588 at ports such as [[Algeciras]] or [[Málaga]].<ref>{{cite journal |year=1977 |title=Quarterly Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IS7jAAAAMAAJ |journal=Quarterly Review |publisher=Anglo-Spanish Society |issue=100{{ndash}}118 |page=43 |quote=It is probable that at least a quarter of the ships of the Great Armada sent against England were built at Algeciras or Malaga. |access-date=2023-06-23}}</ref>