A shipyard needs more than space. It requires equipment, skills, sufficient workers, and the ability to train or hire them. Calling skilled yard workers into the army during wartime may leave too few people to build ships, while protecting them can encourage misuse of reserved employment to avoid military service. Industrial mobilisation therefore needs active monitoring rather than a one-time exemption policy.
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Skilled labour is a naval capability
Expanding a dockyard is futile without equipment, trained workers, and a plan to keep essential labour out of competing wartime demands.