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• n  a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
• n  a person who builds ships as a business
• n  a business that builds and repairs ships

• It never gets under the shipbuilder's thick skin; his follies seem irrational, not tragic.
• The companies he created include the world's biggest shipbuilder, one of its hottest carmakers and one of its leading computer-chip makers.
• Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental .

• shipwright
• ship builder

News & Articles

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• World's Largest All-Electric Pipe Bender Ordered by US Shipbuilder
  Groundbreaking machine extends scope of all-electric bending to 8-inch diameters Madera, CA - Unison has received an order from Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), the supplier of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two shipbuilders of nuclear-powered submarines for the US Navy, for an all-electric CNC machine capable of bending large-bore tubing and piping up to eight inches in diameter ...
  June 10, 2013 - ThomasNet
• Builder chosen for 'floating classroom'
  The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has contracted with the shipbuilder Robert E. Derecktor Inc. of Mamaroneck, N.Y., to build the $2.6 million hybrid catamaran that will become the AquariumâÄôs new âÄúfloating classroom.âÄù Upon delivery in spring 2014, the vessel will double The Maritime AquariumâÄôs capacity for educational programs out on Long Island Sound.
  June 5, 2013 - The Norwalk Citizen

Quotes

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• Bono in Forbes
  The agreement with Oceania Cruises proves that Fincantieri, with the experience and expertise developed in all these years as a world-leading cruise shipbuilder, is ready to enter the rapidly growing upscale market,Fincantieri CEO Giuseppe...
• Tom Allen in Bangor Daily News
  Rep. Tom Allen, D-Maine, called the contract "great news for BIW and the men and women whose skills, dedication and productivity make BIW the nation's premier Navy shipbuilder."
• Gene Taylor in NavyTimes.com
  I would remove my objections to the DDG 1000 program if you could certify that any shipbuilder would be willing to enter into a firm fixed-price contract at that cost,Taylor wrote. "From a business perspective, that is unlikely to happen...