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Lawmakers Echo Trump’s Aims With Bill to Revive U.S. Shipbuilding • May 1, 2025, 7:25 AM ET (Wall Street Journal)
Lawmakers Revive Bipartisan Bill to Restore US Shipbuilding • Apr. 30, 2025, 2:12 AM ET (Bloomberg.com)

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William Adams
English navigator
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
John Stevens, oil on panel, attributed to John Trumbull; in the collection of the Stevens Institute of Technology
John Stevens
American inventor and lawyer
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews
Irish ship designer
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
Watson, Thomas Augustus
Thomas Augustus Watson
American industrialist
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
William James Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie
Canadian shipwright
Henry J. Kaiser
American industrialist
Eugène Schneider
French industrialist
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
John Fitch
John Fitch
American industrialist
Kenneth Colin Irving
Canadian industrialist
Dinis
Dinis
king of Portugal
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
Donald McKay
American naval architect
William Fairbairn
British engineer
William Symington
British engineer
John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor

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