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Earliest known shipyard plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, 1847	Earliest known shipyard diagram of H. C. Stülcken Sohn of Hamburg, Germany, 1853	Drawing of the shipyard later known as Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg, Germany, 1859	Drawing of the shipyard later known as Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg, Germany, 1859

Shipyard modernization plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, drawn in 1860	Shipyard modernization plan of Rickmers shipyard, Bremerhaven, Germany, drawn in 1862; note five longitudinal slips planned and without the horizontal slip	Fuzhou Arsenal under construction, Fujian Province, China, 1867-1871	Drawing of the new dock at Grand Harbour, Malta as seen in the 24 Oct 1867 issue of publication Illustrated London News

1873 United States Navy map of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before any harbor improvements had been made. Note that it is labeled Pearl Lochs and the opening is called the mouth of a river.	Plan of H. C. Stülcken Sohn shipyard of Hamburg, Germany, 1873; note enlarged water front	A warship near completion in the horizontal slip at F. Schichau Danzig shipyard, Danzig, 1874; the shipyard stopped using this slip sometime after WW1	A building of Howaldtswerke shipyard, Kiel, Germany, 1877

A building at the Blohm und Voss shipyard and machinery factory, Hamburg, Germany, late 1877	Plan of Howaldtswerke Kiel shipyard, 1878	View of Howaldtswerke Kiel shipyard, Kiel, Germany, circa 1880s	View of Howaldtswerke shipyard, Kiel, Germany, circa 1880

Portrait of Winston Churchill taken in Dublin, Ireland, 1881	View of Howaldtswerke shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, circa 1880s	Young Winston Churchill, 1884	Bremer Vulkan shipyard drawing, circa 1886