Shipyard

Lech Wałęsa jumped over the shipyard fence in 1980.

That ship was towed into the shipyard for refitting.

That ship was towed into the shipyard for refurbishment.

That ship was towed into the shipyard to undergo alterations.

At Western Marine’s shipyard on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, machines shriek and sparks fly as workers turn hulking pieces of metal into gigantic ships.

The shipyard has about 20,000 workers. Three-thousand of them attended the apprentice school.

To my mind, it appears obvious in the context of total shipwork, the private shipyards are doing very well indeed. It is true that with the dwindling size of the Navy, there will be less repair work.

On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets. As late as 1977, a Publick Observer article boasted, "If you are served turtle soup in Atlanta or catfish in Ft. Wayne, Ind., chances are good that the main ingredients came from the waters of the James or the Chickahominy."