2006-11-08 04:07:05 · 1 answers · asked by diSota 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
when you consider the Brits had to have the Queen Mary 2 built in France......
and there wouldnt be ANY ship building in the US if not for Navy contracts and a few Jones Act ( US to US shipping has to be in US built hulls with US crews) boats.....
the great Canadian US and Brit shipbuilders today are extinct.
A 3 hour ferry ride from Yarmouth NS is the town of Bath, Maine. It's on a small river. It is served by one two lane highway and one small railroad. It's 200 miles from the nearest city, Boston, and in an area that doesnt look much different today from when the Brits and the French and the Abanaki and Iroquois Indians were fighting for possession of North America.
The little shipyard there, Bath Iron Works, in 1940 to 1944 turned out more destroyers than the entire Empire of Japan.
It's so unbelivable it sounds like science fidtion........but true.
2006-11-09 00:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋