From the legislature he toured the western frontier on behalf of Congress to investigate the possibility of Native American attacks, and oversaw shipbuilding efforts for the Continental Navy's Virginia fleet.

The company's shipbuilding efforts are headquartered at its Mizushima Works and Shipyard.

In that role, he was responsible for inspecting naval yards and shipbuilding efforts on the Atlantic coast.

The American generals leading their shipbuilding effort encountered a variety of challenges.

It was this shipbuilding effort which became known as the Long Range Program.

Previous shipbuilding efforts had been halted due to an insufficient annual allowance.

The Second World War saw a similar expansion of the shipbuilding effort and the evacuation to Bath of the Director of Naval Construction.

The German shipbuilding effort largely abandoned surface warship construction and instead focused on U-boat construction in the final years of the war.

However, all British shipbuilding efforts on the lakes had to compete for resources against those on Lake Ontario, which were being surpassed by the Americans at Sackets Harbor.

Schwab's biggest change to the shipbuilding effort was to abandon the cost plus profit contracting system that had been in place up to that time and begin issuing fixed-price contracts.