Harland & Wolff

Harland & Wolff is famous for having built the majority of the ocean liners for the White Star Line, including Olympic-class trio – {{RMS|Olympic}}, {{RMS|Titanic}} and HMHS Britannic.{{cite web |url=http://www.nmni.com/titanic/Design-Build/Harland---Wolff/Belfasts-Titanic-Shipyard.aspx |title=Titanic – Home |website=nmni.com |access-date=27 March 2018 |archive-date=30 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830015336/http://nmni.com/titanic/Design-Build/Harland---Wolff/Belfasts-Titanic-Shipyard.aspx |url-status=live }} Outside of White Star Line, other ships that have been built include the Royal Navy's {{HMS|Belfast|C35|6}}; Royal Mail Line's Andes; Shaw, Savill & Albion's {{SS|Southern Cross|1954|2}}; Union-Castle's {{RMS|Pendennis Castle}}; P&O's {{SS|Canberra||2}}; and Hamburg-America's SS Amerika of 1905.

In 2022, the company was awarded a major naval contract as part of Team Resolute (alongside Navantia UK and BMT), to deliver the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's three new Fleet Solid Support vessels. Harland and Wolff's official history, Shipbuilders to the World, was published in 1986.{{cite book |last1=Moss |first1=M |last2=Hume |first2=J.R. |year=1986 |title=Shipbuilders to the World: 125 years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861–1986 |publisher=Blackstaff Press|location=Belfast |isbn=0-85640-343-1 |pages=xvii, 601 p}}

Harland & Wolff was formed in 1861 by Edward Harland (1831-1895) and Hamburg-born Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834–1913) who moved to England aged 15, and then to Ireland in 1857. In 1858 Harland, then general manager, bought the small shipyard on Queen's Island from his employer Robert Hickson.{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37511 |title=Harland, Sir Edward James, baronet (1831–1895)|access-date=27 March 2008 |author=Michael S. Moss |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37511}}

After buying Hickson's shipyard, Harland made his assistant Wolff a partner in the company. Wolff was the nephew of Gustav Schwabe, Hamburg, who was heavily invested in the Bibby Line, and the first three ships that the newly incorporated shipyard built were for that line. Harland made a success of the business through several innovations, notably replacing the wooden upper decks with iron ones which increased the strength of the ships; and giving the hulls a flatter bottom and squarer cross section, which increased their capacity. Walter Henry Wilson became a partner of the company in 1874.{{cite web |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Walter_Henry_Wilson |title=Walter Henry Wilson |website=gracesguide.co.uk |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-date=26 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426011858/https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Walter_Henry_Wilson |url-status=live }}

When Harland died in 1895, William James Pirrie became the chairman of the company and remained so until his death in 1924.

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Thomas Andrews, nephew of the then-chairman William Pirrie, became the general manager and head of the draughting department in 1907. It was in this period that the company built {{RMS|Olympic||2}} and the two other ships in her class, {{RMS|Titanic||2}} and {{RMS|Britannic||2}}, between 1909 and 1914. It commissioned Sir William Arrol & Co. to construct a massive twin slipway and gantry structure for the project.

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In 1912, due primarily to increasing political instability in Ireland, the company acquired another shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland. It bought the former London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co's Middleton and Govan New shipyards in Govan and Mackie & Thomson's Govan Old Yard, which had been owned by William Beardmore & Company. The three neighbouring yards were amalgamated and redeveloped to provide a total of seven building berths, a fitting-out basin and extensive workshops. Harland & Wolff specialised in building tankers and cargo ships at Govan.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/yards/glasgow/govan.asp |title=Harland and Wolff – Shipbuilding and Engineering Works |website=theyard.info |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005009/http://www.theyard.info/yards/glasgow/govan.asp |url-status=live }} The nearby shipyard of A. & J. Inglis, on the north bank of the Clyde and the east bank of the Kelvin, was also purchased by Harland & Wolff in 1919, along with the Meadowside shipyard of D. and W. Henderson and Company, on the north bank of the Clyde but on the west bank of the Kelvin.Clyde Shipyards, The Glasgow Story, https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSW00019 The company also bought a stake in the company's primary steel supplier, David Colville & Sons. Harland & Wolff also established shipyards at Bootle in Liverpool,{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/former-liverpool-head-office-titanic-3322759 |title=Former Liverpool head office of Titanic builders Harland & Wolff to be demolished |first=Alan |last=Weston |date=18 February 2013 |website=liverpoolecho |access-date=31 December 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813004427/https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/former-liverpool-head-office-titanic-3322759 |url-status=live }} North Woolwich in London{{cite web |url=https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw008734 |title=Britain From Above – The Harland and Wolff Ltd Works at Gallions Point, North Woolwich, 1947 |website=britainfromabove.org.uk |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813005016/https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw008734 |url-status=live }} and Southampton.{{cite web |url=https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw008800 |title=Britain From Above – Harland & Wolff Ltd Shipbuilding and Engineering Works and the docks, Southampton, 1947 |website=britainfromabove.org.uk |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813004957/https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw008800 |url-status=live }} However, these shipyards were all eventually closed, beginning in the early 1960s when the company opted to consolidate its operations in Belfast.

In the First World War, Harland & Wolff built Abercrombie-class monitors and cruisers, including the 15-inch gun armed "large light cruiser" {{HMS|Glorious}}.

In 1918, the company opened a new shipyard on the eastern side of the Musgrave Channel which was named the East Yard. This yard specialised in mass-produced ships of standard design developed in the First World War.

During the 1920s, Catholic workers, Socialists and labour activists were routinely expelled from their jobs in the shipyard:{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sectarianism-and-the-shipyard-1.916936 |title=Sectarianism and the shipyard |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=18 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118224912/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sectarianism-and-the-shipyard-1.916936 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1912/jul/31/belfast-riots |title=BELFAST RIOTS. (Hansard, 31 July 1912) |website=api.parliament.uk |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=3 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703190836/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1912/jul/31/belfast-riots |url-status=live }} Similar actions had occurred in June 1898 and July, 1912.{{cite book |last=Boyd |first=Andrew |author-link= |date=1969 |title=Holy War in Belfast |url= |location=Tralee |publisher=Anvil Books |page=174-175 |isbn=}} See The Troubles in Ulster (1920–1922).

The company started an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary with Short Brothers, called Short & Harland Limited in 1936. Its first order was for 189 Handley Page Hereford bombers built under licence from Handley Page for the Royal Air Force. In the Second World War, this factory built Short Stirling bombers as the Hereford was removed from service.

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The shipyard was busy in the Second World War, building six aircraft carriers, two cruisers (including {{HMS|Belfast|C35|6}}) and 131 other naval ships; and repairing over 22,000 vessels. It also manufactured tanks and artillery components. It was in this period that the company's workforce peaked at around 35,000 people. However, many of the vessels built in this era were commissioned right at the end of the Second World War, as Harland & Wolff were focused on ship repair in the first three years of the war. The yard on Queen's Island was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in April and May 1941 during the Belfast Blitz, causing considerable damage to the shipbuilding facilities and destroying the aircraft factory.

With the rise of the jet-powered airliner in the late 1950s, the demand for ocean liners declined. This, coupled with competition from Japan, led to difficulties for the British shipbuilding industry. The last liner that the company launched was MV Arlanza for Royal Mail Line in 1960; the last liner completed was SS Canberra for P&O in 1961.

In the 1960s, notable achievements for the yard included the tanker Myrina, which was the first supertanker built in the UK and the largest vessel ever launched down a slipway, as it was in September 1967. In the same period the yard also built the semi-submersible drilling rig Sea Quest which, due to its three-legged design, was launched down three parallel slipways. This was a first and only time this was ever done.

In the mid-1960s, the Geddes Committee recommended that the British government advance loans and subsidies to British shipyards to modernise production methods and shipyard infrastructure to preserve jobs. A major modernisation programme at the shipyard was undertaken, centred on the creation of a large construction graving dock serviced by two Krupp Goliath cranes, the iconic Samson and Goliath, enabling the shipyard to build much larger post-war merchant ships, including one of 333,000 tonnes.

The shipyard had a long-standing reputation as a Protestant closed shop, and in 1970, during the Troubles, 500 Catholic workers were expelled from their role.{{cite book |last=Pat Coogan |first=Tim |title=The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace |publisher=Head of Zeus Ltd |year=2015 |pages=607}}

Continuing financial problems led to the company's nationalisation, though not as part of British Shipbuilders, in 1977. In 1971, the Arrol Gantry complex, within which many ships were built until the early 1960s, was demolished. The nationalised company was sold by the British government in 1989 to a management/employee buy-out in partnership with the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen; this buy-out led to a new company called Harland & Wolff Holdings Plc.{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/timeline/timeline.asp |title=Harland and Wolff – Shipbuilding and Engineering Works |website=theyard.info |access-date=12 August 2018 |archive-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813004358/http://www.theyard.info/timeline/timeline.asp |url-status=live }} By this time, the number of people employed by the company had fallen to around 3,000.

For the next few years, Harland & Wolff specialised in building standard Suezmax oil tankers, and has continued to concentrate on vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry. It has made some forays outside this market.

In the late 1990s, the yard was part of the then British Aerospace team for the Royal Navy's Future Carrier (CVF) programme. It was envisaged that the ship would be assembled at the Harland & Wolff dry-dock in Belfast. In 1999, BAE merged with Marconi Electronic Systems. The new company, BAE Systems Marine, included the former Marconi shipyards on the Clyde and at Barrow-in-Furness thus rendering H&W's involvement surplus to requirements.

Faced with competitive pressures, Harland & Wolff sought to shift and broaden their portfolio, focusing less on shipbuilding and more on design and structural engineering, as well as ship repair, offshore construction projects and competing for other projects to do with metal engineering and construction. This led to Harland & Wolff constructing a series of bridges in Britain and also in the Republic of Ireland, such as the James Joyce Bridge and the restoration of Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge, building on the success of its first foray into the civil engineering sector with the construction of the Foyle Bridge in the 1980s.

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Harland & Wolff's last shipbuilding project was MV Anvil Point,{{cite web |url=http://www.theyard.info/ships/list_ships.asp?name=&built=&vessel_type=&launch_date=&Owner=&fate= |title=List of Ships |publisher=theyard.info |access-date=12 March 2018 |archive-date=23 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223211745/http://www.theyard.info/ships/list_ships.asp?name=&built=&vessel_type=&launch_date=&Owner=&fate= |url-status=live }} one of six near identical {{sclass2|Point|sealift ship|1}}s built for use by the Ministry of Defence. The ship, built under licence from German shipbuilders Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, was launched in 2003.

The company unsuccessfully tendered against Chantiers de l'Atlantique for the construction of Cunard's {{RMS|Queen Mary 2||2}}.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,190391,00.html |newspaper=The Guardian |title=Harland & Wolff locks horns with DTI |date=11 March 2000 |location=London |first=John |last=Mullin |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226065301/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/11/northernireland.uknews |url-status=live }}

In 2003, Harland & Wolff's parent company sold 185 acres of surplus shipyard land and buildings to Harcourt Developments for £47 million. This is now known as the Titanic Quarter, and includes the £97 million Titanic Belfast visitor attraction.

File:'Isle of Inishmore' and 'Jonathan Swift' in Belfast - geograph.org.uk - 653773.jpgIn recent years the company has seen its ship-related workload increase. While Harland & Wolff has had no recent involvement in shipbuilding projects, the company is increasingly involved in overhaul, re-fitting and ship repair, as well as the construction and repair of off-shore equipment such as oil platforms. On 1 February 2011 it was announced that Harland & Wolff had won the contract to refurbish {{SS|Nomadic|1911|6}}, effectively rekindling its nearly 150-year association with the White Star Line. Structural steel work on the ship began on 10 February 2011 and was completed in time for the 2012 Belfast Titanic Festival. In July 2012 Harland & Wolff was to carry out the dry docking and service of the Husky Oil SeaRose FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel.

Belfast's skyline is still dominated today by Harland & Wolff's famous twin gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, built in 1974 and 1969 respectively.

In late 2007, the 'Goliath' gantry crane was re-commissioned, having been moth-balled in 2003 due to the lack of heavy-lifting work at the yard.

In June 2008, assembly work at the Belfast yard was underway on 60 Vestas V90-3MW wind turbines for the Robin Rigg Wind Farm.{{cite news |url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/breath-of-fresh-air-for-hampw-with-wind-turbune-venture-13506748.html |title=Breath of fresh air for H&W with wind turbine venture |first=Claire |last=Harrison |date=2 June 2008 |access-date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=Belfast Telegraph |archive-date=13 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113093925/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/breath-of-fresh-air-for-hampw-with-wind-turbune-venture-13506748.html |url-status=live }} This was the second offshore wind farm assembled by the company for Vestas having completed the logistics for the Barrow Offshore Wind Farm in 2006. In August 2011 Harland & Wolff completed the logistics for the Ormonde Wind Farm which consisted of 30 REpower 5MW turbines.

In March 2008, the construction of the world's first commercial tidal stream turbine, for Marine Current Turbines, was completed at the Belfast yard. The installation of the 1.2MW SeaGen Tidal System was begun in Strangford Lough in April 2008.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/31/tidal.power |first=Henry |last=McDonald |date=31 March 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |title=Tidal power comes to Northern Ireland |location=London |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202182250/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/31/tidal.power |url-status=live }}

In July 2010, Harland & Wolff secured a contract to make a prototype tidal energy turbine for Scotrenewables Ltd.{{cite web |url=http://www.insideireland.ie/index.cfm/section/news/ext/harlandandwollf001/category/1067 |title=Turbine contract boost for Harland and Wolff |work=Inside Ireland |publisher=Adman multimedia}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Manufacture of the SR250 device was completed in May 2011 and has been undergoing testing in Orkney since.

Since April 2012, the booming offshore wind power industry has taken centre stage. Harland & Wolff had been working on three innovative meteorological mast foundations for the Dogger Bank and Firth of Forth offshore wind farms, as well as putting the finishing touches to two Siemens substations for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. Seventy-five per cent of the company's work was based on offshore renewable energy. Harland & Wolff was one of many UK and international companies profiting from the emergence of UK wind- and marine-generated electricity, which had been attracting significant inward investment.{{cite news |date=14 February 2011 |title=Britain could lead world in offshore wind power |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/workingforchange/8323727/Britain-could-lead-world-in-offshore-wind-power.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218173746/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/workingforchange/8323727/Britain-could-lead-world-in-offshore-wind-power.html |archive-date=18 February 2011}} As the business environment became increasingly competitive the yard began to have difficulty in generating enough business to meet overhead expenses. The yard was last profitable in 2015 and the following year it had an operating loss of £6 million.{{cite news |last=McKeown |first=Gareth |date=21 July 2017 |title=Harland & Wolff reports big loss in 'unacceptable year' |url=http://www.irishnews.com/business/2017/07/21/news/harland-wolff-reports-big-loss-in-unacceptable-year--1089566/ |work=The Irish News |access-date=15 September 2019 |archive-date=21 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021063410/http://www.irishnews.com/business/2017/07/21/news/harland-wolff-reports-big-loss-in-unacceptable-year--1089566/ |url-status=live }}

In 2018, the parent company Fred. Olsen & Co. restructured and decided to place Harland & Wolff up for sale.{{cite news |author= |title=Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard up for sale |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46648029 |publisher=BBC News |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=28 December 2018 |access-date=15 September 2019 |archive-date=3 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803121023/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46648029 |url-status=live }} No buyer emerged and on 5 August 2019 the company announced that they would cease trading and entered formal administration.{{cite news |title=Titanic shipbuilder Harland and Wolff set to enter administration |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/titanic-shipbuilder-harland-and-wolff-set-to-enter-administration-a4205481.html |access-date=5 August 2019 |work=Evening Standard |location=London |date=5 August 2019 |language=en |archive-date=5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805114025/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/titanic-shipbuilder-harland-and-wolff-set-to-enter-administration-a4205481.html |url-status=live }}

Subsequently, on 1 October 2019, it was announced that the shipyard had been bought for £6 million by the London-based energy firm, InfraStrata.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-49889573 |title=Harland and Wolff: Belfast shipyard bought by UK firm |work=BBC News |date=1 October 2019 |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202012150/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-49889573 |url-status=live }}

In August 2020, InfraStrata also bought the dormant Appledore shipyard for £7 million.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-53903667 |title=Appledore Shipyard to reopen after £7m InfraStrata deal |publisher=BBC News |date=25 August 2020 |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=1 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901150327/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-53903667 |url-status=live }} The deal will see the shipyard renamed H&W Appledore complementing the H&W Belfast shipyard by focusing on smaller ships of up to 119 metres in the shipbuilding and ship repair market.

In February 2021, InfraStrata acquired two BiFab yards, the £850,000 deal was struck for the Methil and Arnish yards, (but not the Burntisland facility). These Scottish facilities will trade under the Harland & Wolff brand.{{cn|date=April 2023}} In September 2021, Infrastrata plc was renamed Harland & Wolff Group Holdings plc. {{cite web |title=Infrastrata PLC (INFA.L) Change of Name |url=https://www.share-talk.com/infrastrata-plc-infa-l-change-of-name/ |website=Share Talk |date=23 September 2021 |access-date=28 February 2024}}{{cite web |title=HARLAND & WOLFF GROUP HOLDINGS PLC |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06409712 |website=Find and Update Company Information |publisher=Companies House (UK Government website) |access-date=28 February 2024}}

In April 2023, the Belfast yard completed its first new vessel since Anvil Point in 2003. It is a barge for the waste management company, Cory, the first of an order for 23 such craft. From 2025 the yard is expecting to construct three new solid stores replenishment vessels for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary as part of the Team Resolute Consortium.{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=John |title=Harland & Wolff delivers first ship in 20 years |work=BBC News |date=21 April 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65353068 |access-date=22 April 2023 |archive-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421232409/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65353068 |url-status=live }}

On 16 September 2024, it was reported that Harland & Wolff entered administration for the second time in 5 years.{{cite news |title=Harland and Wolff set to go into administration |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2024/0916/1470290-harland-and-wolff/ |access-date=19 December 2024 |work=RTÉ News |date=16 September 2024 |language=en}} The company was expected to continue operations normally, with its non-core operations winding down and up to 60 jobs being lost.{{cite news |last1=Jude Webber, Sylvia Pfeifer and Jim Pickard |title=Harland & Wolff appoints administrators to wind up company |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2024/09/16/titanic-builder-harland-wolff-to-appoint-administrators-as-debt-woes-deepen/ |access-date=19 December 2024 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=16 September 2024 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url= https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkddrv7v2po.amp|title= Titanic shipyard to go into administration|last=Campbell|first=John|date=September 16, 2024|access-date=September 16, 2024|website=BBC|language=en}} On 19 December 2024, it was announced that the Spanish State-owned shipbuilding company Navantia had agreed to buy Harland & Wolff's four shipyards and retain all employees.{{cite news| last1 = Webber| first1 = Jude| last2 = Pickard| first2 = Jim| last3 = Jopson| first3 = Barney| date = 19 Dec 2024| title = Spain's Navantia to buy Harland & Wolff| url = https://on.ft.com/4gH2T3z| work = Financial Times| location = | access-date = 22 Dec 2024}}{{cite news |title=Spain's Navantia to rescue shipbuilder Harland & Wolff |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1219/1487328-harland-wolff-deal/ |access-date=19 December 2024 |work=RTÉ News |date=19 December 2024 |language=en}}

In January 2025, it was announced that Navantia had completed its purchase of the British company.{{cite news| last1 = Webber| first1 = Jude| date = 29 January 2025| title = Harland & Wolff's new owner pledges £100mn to revive UK shipbuilder| url = https://on.ft.com/3PXBNd8| work = Financial Times| location = | access-date = 2 March 2025}}

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A collection of Harland & Wolff papers are held at Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).{{cite web |title=Harland & Wolff Archive, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland |url=http://www.rascal.ac.uk/collection/199 |work=RASCAL: Research and Special Collections Available Locally (Ireland) |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914124900/http://www.rascal.ac.uk/collection/199 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |url-status=dead}} The Harland & Wolff archive in PRONI comprises c.2,000 files, c.200 volumes and c.16,000 documents, 1861–1987, documenting most aspects of the history of Belfast's famous shipbuilding firm.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/harland-and-wolff-d2805.pdf |title="Introduction to the Harland and Wolff Papers" |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914081737/https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/harland-and-wolff-d2805.pdf |url-status=live }} A further major archive is held at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (UFTM). This has a photographic collection and a ships' plans collection (i.e., technical drawings). Around 8,000 prints of Harland & Wolff-built ships covering the period 1890-1945 are held in bound volumes in the UFTM's library. However the UFTM's collection of ships' plans is not currently available to the public nor is there a copy service.{{cite book |last=PRONI |title=Introduction Harland and Wolff Papers |year=2007 |url=https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/harland-and-wolff-d2805.pdf |access-date=14 September 2017 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914081737/https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/harland-and-wolff-d2805.pdf |url-status=live }} Selected early ship's plans (dating from 1860 to 1882) are reproduced in a pictorial book by McCluskie (1998).{{cite book |last=McCluskie |first=Tom |title=Ships from the Archives of Harland & Wolff: Builders of the Titanic |year=1998 |publisher=PRC Publishing Ltd |location=London |isbn=1-85648-467X |page=160}} Records relating to the Govan yard of Harland & Wolff plc are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).{{cite web |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb248-ugd241 |title=Records of Harland & Wolff plc, shipbuilders, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland and Govan, City of Glasgow, Scotland – Archives Hub |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk |access-date=31 December 2018 |archive-date=26 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226065335/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/eb3b104e-0820-3010-8406-8bc6046d4ba8 |url-status=live }}

See: List of ships built by Harland and Wolff

{{See also|Category:Ships built by Harland and Wolff}}

{{See also|Category:Ships built in Belfast}}

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• {{cite book |last=McWhirter |first=George |year=1976 |title=Queen of the Sea, George McWhirter |location=Ottawa |publisher=Oberon Press |isbn=0-88750-198-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/queenofseapoems0000mcwh}} (Poems about the Belfast Shipyard)
• {{Cite book |last=Cameron |first=Stephen |year=2011 |title=Belfast Shipbuilders: A Titanic Tale |edition=1st |publisher=Colourpoint Books |isbn=978-1-906578-78-7}}

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