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Sir Edward Harland (1831–1895), Bt, MP. Born 15th May 1831 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy. In 1854 Edward James Harland came to Belfast to manage Robert Hickson's shipyard at Queen's Island. In 1861, Harland chose the 27-year-old Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, his former personal assistant, to become a partner in ...
Alfred Fleming Cunningham was born in Upper Meadow Street in Belfast in 1890. He was living in the Spamount Street in the New Lodge area while working as an apprentice ship's fitter for Harland and Wolff. He was just 19 when he started working on RMS Titanic. At 21 years old, Alfred was selected to be one of the ‘guarantee group’.
Other well known ships built by Harland & Wolff include the Titanic ' s sister ships RMS Olympic and RMS Britannic, the Royal Navy's HMS Belfast, Royal Mail Line's Andes, Shaw Savill's Southern Cross, Union-Castle's RMS Pendennis Castle, and P&O's Canberra. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986 ...
May 30, 2011 · Mon May 30 2011 - 01:00. With a workforce of almost 15,000, the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast not only created Titanic; it shaped the fortunes of the city and its people. But life was not ...
Aug 1, 2019 · Published: August 1, 2019 9:14am EDT. Shipyard workers in Belfast are fighting to keep crisis-hit Harland & Wolff in business. They have called on new prime minister Boris Johnson to re ...
Apr 11, 2022 · 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.
