What is "ship-building"

Usage examples of "ship-building".

On March 8, 1778, a frustrated Lord Germain told Sir Henry Clinton that if he could not soon bring Washington to a decisive engagement, he was to organize an amphibious operation to attack the Ports on the Coast, from New York to Nova Scotia, and to seize or destroy every Ship or Vessel in the different Creeks or Harbors, wherever it is found practicalle to penetrate, as also to destroy all Wharfs and Stores, and Materials for Ship-Building, so as to incapacitate them from raising a Marine, or continuing their Depredations upon the Trade of this Kingdom.