Talk:List of shipbuilders and shipyards

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[edit] Tidying?

With regard to tidying this article, would it not make more sense to have the companies listed by their most commonly known names, then split those bits into the subsidiaries that merged into it (For instance Vosper Thornycroft should be split into Vosper and John I Thornycroft, similar to how the formation of the Carnival Corporation & plc article has been done) This may make it easier to find the information people may be looking for quicker. Which at the end of the day is the whole idea of an encyclopedia. JonEastham 13:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Have made a quick idea of what it would look like and have also added a couple of US yards it can be seen here: User:JonEastham/Sandbox - JonEastham 13:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Better to have the shipyards listed alphabetically and then make note in each what happened to it otherwise you have to deal with British Shipbuilders. I believe "Vosper Thorneycroft" is probably still what "VT Shipbuilding" is called by some so i would avoid "commonly known names". GraemeLeggett 14:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some US Shipyard stuff

User:Dual Freq/Shipyards has some material I collected a while back. It was kind of a Naval Vessel Register cross reference to current name or wiki-article name ,but the format I used significantly differs from this list. It might be useful here. --Dual Freq 23:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)