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Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward James Harland (1831–1895) and Hamburg -born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834–1913) who came to the UK aged 14. In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson. Harland & Wolff's Belfast drawing offices early in the 20th century.
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding firm. It built many notable and world-famous ships including RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth 2. At its height, from 1900 to the 1950s, it was one of the most highly regarded, and ...
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Even though maritime jobs often require prior experience, the shipyard is a good place to start your career since many positions are designed to train workers on what it's like to work on the ...
Appledore shipyard The shipyard's cranes Bow section of HMS Queen Elizabeth at Appledore in March 2010 The Appledore Yard was founded in 1855 on the estuary of the River Torridge . [ 1 ] The Richmond Dry Dock was built in 1856 by William Yeo and named after Richmond Bay on the north coast of Prince Edward Island in Canada, where the Yeo family ...
Coastal landforms of Ireland This page was last edited on 22 June 2023, at 09:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
The following is a list of ships that were built by Harland & Wolff, a heavy industrial company which specialises in shipbuilding and offshore construction, and is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as having had yards at Govan (1914–1963) and Greenock (1920–1928) in Scotland. The 1,600 ships are listed in order of the date of ...
Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aeroplanes. [ 1 ] It was particularly notable for its flying boat designs manufactured into the 1950s.