It's probably a very simple change in the common/technologies.txt file.
Without altering the game files, your only option is really to westernise or annex a province which already has ships on its unit production queue (extremely unlikely, difficult and not to be relied on)
Without altering the game files, your only option is really to westernise or annex a province which already has ships on its unit production queue (extremely unlikely, difficult and not to be relied on)