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| | DOCKYARDS - LoveToKnow Article on DOCKYARDS |
 | | Down to 1905 all the important vessels of the Japanese navy were built in Great Britain, France, Germany and the United States, but at the end of that year a first-class cruiser of 13,500 tons (the Tsukuba) was launched from the important yard at Kure. |
| | The subsidiary establishments in France are the gun foundry at Ruelle; the steel and iron works at Gurigny, where anchors, chains and armour-plate are made; and the works at Indret, on an island in the lower Loire, where machinery is constructed. |
| | The shipbuilding branch of the navy is under the direction of a chief constructor (Oberster-Ingen-ieur), assisted by seven constructors, of whom two are of the first class. |
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