Centers of Shipbuilding

Every nation with a coastline has a shipbuilding industry, and even landlocked kingdoms need boats for use on navigable waterways. Portsmouth, Small Hythe on the river Rother, and London are key shipbuilding centers in the Stonehenge Tribunal, with the Thames home to many shipyards, large and small. Lübeck, Bremen, and Antwerp are prominent in the Rhine, while the wider Bruges area and Barfleur support shipbuilding in the Normandy Tribunal.

The major communes of Genoa, Pisa, and Venice in the Roman Tribunal own shipyards dedicated to building and maintaining commune ships, as well as private enterprise. Those in Genoa and Pisa are kept busy by the cities' mutual antipathy and near-constant state of war. It was the Venetian shipyards that supplied the Fourth Crusade with the ships it needed to transport thousands of men to the Holy Land. Further afield, shipyards can be found in any coastal city engaged in trade, mostly undertaking repair and maintenance work on visiting merchant vessels, such as the important shipbuilding port of Koločep on the Dalmatian coast. Byzantium in particular, commanding a large coastal domain, is home to many shipbuilding ports.