Black Bermudians became highly skilled shipwrights, blacksmiths and joiners. Local shipwrights built schooners, brigs and dories. Fairhaven became a town of shipwrights, ship chandlers, ropemakers, coopers, and sailmakers. Much of the skills required of shipwrights or shipbuilders were obtained through on-the-job-training. The name was common in earlier centuries, used by cabinetmakers, shipwrights, and perhaps other trades. These and similar ship types were familiar to Portuguese navigators and shipwrights. As the kingdoms of Wu and Yue, they were famed as fishers, shipwrights, and sword-smiths. "I want shipwrights and sailors, no crowds of clerks ", he said. The shipbuilding was significantly slowed in mid-August by an outbreak of disease among the shipwrights. These ships and more were assembled by skilled shipwrights on the upper Richelieu River. The docks enabled the growth of industry, initially shipwrights and sandstone quarries. The skills of the local shipwrights and boatbuilders have widely sought after. The vessel was built by Daniel Brent Shipwrights in the Greenland South Dockyard, Rotherhithe, London. Then he investigated the work of shipwrights who built in a different tradition.