期刊名称：Design and Technology Education: an International Journal
印刷版ISSN：1360-1431
出版年度：2014
卷号：19
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：Design and Technology Education: an International Journal
摘要：The 6th November provided me with some confusing moments of reflection on our status as an unavoidably sea-based nation. King Richard 1 ordered the construction of Portsmouth dockyard in 1194. King Henry VIII ordered the construction of the Mary Rose there in 1510. Charles 11 created the Royal Navy in 1670 and made Portsmouth his Royal Dockyard. In the early 1800s the Portsmouth dockyard was the largest industrial complex in the world and included the revolutionary block-making factory. It was Marc Isambard Brunel (Isambard Kingdom’s father) who created the first mass production factory in the world – producing pulley blocks for rigging the navy ships. In 1808 that factory, in the Portsmouth dockyard, produced 130,000 rigging blocks. Over 300 naval ships were built in Portsmouth – including HMS Royal Sovereign 1857 and HMS Iron Duke in 1912. But on 6th November 2013 BAE Systems (now the owners of the dockyard) announced the end of ship-building in Portsmouth.
