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Uraga Dock Company

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gained important positions in the new administration, and supported the establishment of a modern shipyard on the foundation established by Nakajima. The new facility was inaugurated in 1897, and faced an immediate crisis when
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group in 1969. It was modernized extensively on several occasions, but increasing competitive pressures from overseas ship builders forced Sumitomo to close down operations in 2003.
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opened a rival facility the following year and started to dump prices in an effort to destroy its competition. Uraga Dock Company managed to buy out Ishikawajima in 1902.
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By 1919, Uraga Dock Company was considered one of the largest and best equipped private shipyards in the world. Subsidiary companies were established in
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built in Japan in 1859. However, the Tokugawa government decided to establish its own shipyards at nearby
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in 1869. A shipyard had already existed in Uraga from the end of the
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fighting on the Tokugawa side. After the establishment of the
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In post war Japan, Uraga Dock Company was acquired by the
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who boarded the American vessel was a trained shipwright,
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anchored off Uraga in 1854, one of the officials of the
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Index


shipyard
Uraga
Japan
warships
Imperial Japanese Navy
Enomoto Takeaki
Edo period
Commodore Perry
flagship
Tokugawa shogunate
Nakajima Saburosuke
United States
barque
Hōō maru
Dutch
Kanrin maru
dry dock
Yokosuka
Boshin War
Meiji restoration
Meiji government
Arai Ikunosuke
Tokyo
Ishikawajima Harima
destroyer
Imperial Japanese Navy
Nagatsuki
passenger liners
Yokkaichi, Mie

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