How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry

Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by wagwang on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:20PM (#45872010)

Can't wait for the battle of the Thames river between the British North Sea fleet (purchased from China) against the imperial Russian fleet (also purchased from China)

On a more serious note, the problem with centering your economy on international finance is that it's only lucrative if no one else in the world has capital and access to worldwide industry.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by protocolture on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:06PM (#45872322)

As long as the British people suffer, who am I to judge who built the boats.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by nextworddev on Sunday November 09, 2025 @10:33PM (#45872102)

Good thing that Japanese and South Korean shipbuilding industries exist

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by amelius on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:14AM (#45873660)

You only need a small naval drone to down an entire ship.

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by petepete on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:02AM (#45873994)

Hopefully the Russians don't try and destroy the fishermen of Hull again.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry by discomrobertul8 on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:18AM (#45875693)

They'll all sink when they crash in to the dumped Lime bike reef (purchased from China)

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