shipbuilder

Castellammare di Stabia, on the west coast of the gulf, has a large naval shipbuilding yard and an important harbour.

Shipbuilding, net and rope-making, and woollen manufacturing are other industries, and coal is mined in the vicinity.

No doubt the use of iron, and now of steel, has contributed most largely to the increase of shipbuilding in this country.

I have already mentioned the large consumption, reckoned in tons of pig iron, of the materials for shipbuilding.