• Shipbuilding in Vizcaya in the nineteenth and twentieth century

    By Jesús M ª Valdaliso

     

    The transition from sail to steam vessels and the crisis of traditional shipyards

     

    The wooden shipbuilding industry which had a tradition for centuries in Vizcaya, after a depressing situation in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, enjoyed its last boom in the 1840s and 1850s, due to the trade revival and the maritime transport on one hand and the protection duty by the State on the other. The Basque Provinces were integrated to the Spanish Crown customs system. (más…)

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