Groundbreaking ceremony

Japanese: 起工式 - きこうしき
Groundbreaking ceremony

… The completed blocks are stacked by a crane on a dock or a berth, and then welded together to form the shape of a ship. The first time the completed blocks are loaded onto the ship, this is called the laying of the keel, and a keel-breaking ceremony is usually held at this time. This method of dividing the ship's hull into several blocks of appropriate size, making each block, and then stacking them in order to form the hull is called the block construction method, and all large ships today are built using this method. …

*Some of the terms used in reference to the "groundbreaking ceremony" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 完成したブロックはドックまたは船台上にクレーンで積み上げられ,このブロックどうしをさらに溶接で接続して船の形に組み立てていく。完成したブロックを初めて搭載する作業を起工といい,このときふつう起工式が行われる。 このように,船体を適当な大きさのいくつかのブロックに区分し,各ブロックをつくってからこれを順次積み上げて船体をつくっていく方法をブロック建造法といい,現在の大型船はすべてこの方法で建造されている。…

※「起工式」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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