harland & wolff

Hello all, I have been reading up on Charlotte Brennan, The secretary at Harland and Wolff. I have read that she took many photographs of people and places during the Olympic class construction and was curious if anyone knows which photos she may have taken. She was given a ticket to the...

During my recent visit to Belfast Ireland, in October 2023, I visited the former Headqurters of Harland and Woflf. It is now a hotel called the Titanic Hotel. I explained that I was a Titanic researcher from the United States and I was given free reign to roam about. The drawing office is mostly...

Buffalo (New York) Evening News, 5 May 1923

I mean, apart from Thomas Andrews, Edward Wielding, Alexander Carlisle, who else took part in this great project as a designer?

Belfast shipyard and offshore construction firm Harland & Wolff Group Holdings PLC (AIM:HARL) – famous for building the Titanic and other Olympic-class ocean liners in the early 20th century – doubled its market value on Wednesday following a landmark contract win...

THE boss of Harland & Wolff has expressed disappointment after the UK Government scrapped a £250 million shipbuilding contract. The Belfast-based company, which also owns shipyards in Scotland and the south of England, was one of two finalists in the running to land the lucrative national...

If this is the wrong place for this thread toi be posted, please have this movied. As of right now, I'm workign on and almost finished working on a shipbucket scale drawing of Arrol Gantry. I'm at the stage where I will draw the service crane. The problem is that thew only image i could find of...

Maritime Belfast Trust, the charity responsible for preserving Belfast’s maritime and industrial heritage, owns the tender to RMS Titanic and have brought Harland & Wolff on board to give the ship that they completed in 1911 a new coat of paint...

Shipbuilder Harland & Wolff has inked a deal with the British government to give an ex-Royal Navy mine countermeasures vessel a new lease of life — with the Lithuanian Navy. The £55 million (U.S. $65 million) deal will see the company reenter the defense sector for the first time in decades...

A spokesman for the company said that this debt related to a problem with the company’s new ERP [accounting] system and was paid in full as soon as the issue was identified. Once one of Britain’s best-known companies, Harland & Wolff had fallen on leaner times in recent years until it was saved...

Harland & Wolff may be best known as the builder of the ill-fated transatlantic liner RMS Titanic, but these days its sights are set on somewhat different markets. It has just been awarded an initial contract worth approximately GBP 8.5 million (about $10.7 million) by Cory Group. The contract...

The famed Belfast dockyard of Harland & Wolff has won a drydocking contract for two cruise ships belonging to two Carnival Corporation brands, which will call for repairs for 33 days in total...

Hello everyone, I know, thanks to several Belfast maps, that the Victoria channel was widened after 1912, but before 1919. During the First World War, I recall that warships were built by H&W in Belfast. Perhaps the widening was sped up as they needed a wider channel ? Anyway, do you know when...

Is their a list available of the Drawing Office Staff?

I was reading about how some of the larger ocean liners, such as Titanic and Mauretania, were constructed and launched. They slid the finished hull down a slipway into the water, and they were concerned about it tipping over before the entire hull was in water. Harland and Wolff did have the...

Although links to this I think are elsewhere on this site, I think it deserves a post for itself. I found a wealth of contemporary photos in high detail on the Ulster Museum's website. Its a bit hard to use, but with some searching photos of all Olympic class vessels can be found (just search...

How long was the Titanic under construction?

As the story goes John Brown a arrival shipyard to Harland & Wolff will take a 52% stake in H&W in 1907! Why would William Pirrie want for this happen? We hear he wanted to gain the new technology in steam turbines, which John Brown had a licence from Charles Parsons to do so. But looking into...

At which shipyard was the Titanic constructed?

This thread was created after Aaron_2016 referenced on the thread Titanic: The New Evidence highlighted the recent and bizarre trend in Belfast to demolish buildings of immense historic importance to the Harland & Wolff Shipyard and Titanic in general. Houses / offices that were used by H&W...