In the decade before the Civil War, Wilmington led the nation in the building of iron ships. This is the history of Wimington's shipbuilding industry from 1644 to the recent launching of the Kalmar Nykel.
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An Excellent Short History of Wilimington Shipbuilding,
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This review is from: The City That Launched A Thousand Ships: Shipbuilding In Wilmington 1644-1997 (Hardcover)
Urban treats the subject with a historian's eye, reviewing four centuries of shipbuilding on the Christina River. The ships come alive in his narratives, and the people who build them are an essential part of the tale.Urban explores the geographical, hitorical, economic and social forces at play in the Wilmington shipbuiling industry. He discusses the community that supported the industry, spending a good bit of time on the reasons that Wilmington originally flourished as a shipbuilding port. He covers the factors in its rise and fall as a major port on the East Coast. While essentially a history, the personal glimpses the book offers make it very readable.
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