Before this, there were more than ten large-scale shipyards throughout Australasia.
However, apart from the Royal Shipyard in Sydney, most of the other shipyards were products of the colonial period in Australia and New Zealand, with their main business being the construction of sailing ships and small fishing boats.
Most of these shipyards could not build ships with a tonnage of more than 50 tons, just some medium and small-sized civilian vessels.
There were only three shipyards capable of building warships in the entirety of Australasia.
Besides the Royal Shipyard, the remaining two military shipyards could only build shore defense gunboats and small escort ships, with a weight of no more than one thousand tons.
This greatly limited the development of the navy in Australasia.
