In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in Xhosa. You must translate it to English in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.
Q: Kwaba ngelishwa yaba yiBritani eyomeleza ukuba kuqaliswe enye yezona zaba duru ukwenza iguquko enkulu kumkhosi wenqanawa ukwenza inzululwazi ngokwakha ngenkulungwane.
A:
It was unfortunate, therefore, that it was a British firm which initiated one of the most expensive upheavals in naval architecture of the century.