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 When Harland died in , William James Pirrie became the chairman of the company until his death in Thomas Andrews also became the general manager and head of the draughting department in In , due primarily to increasing political instability in Ireland, the company acquired another shipyard at Govan in Glasgow, Scotland.
The three neighbouring yards were amalgamated and redeveloped to provide a total of seven building berths, a fitting-out basin and extensive workshops.
The nearby shipyard of A. However, these shipyards were all eventually closed from the early s when the company opted to consolidate its operations in Belfast. In the First World War, Harland and Wolff built monitors and cruisers, including the inch gun armed "large light cruiser". In , 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. In , 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.
Eventually, Harland and Wolff had stopped building ships. Instead, they built engines and repair damaged ships though the company had indeed seen its ship-related workload increase slightly. On August 5th, the company announced they would cease trading, and entered into Administration, on August 7th, My Planner Currently nothing planned yet in your itinerary.
Have a browse through the site and begin to add things you're interested in. Site Search. Book Tickets Online. Between and , Harland and Wolff was Belfast's biggest employer by a long way. Thousands of people worked in the ship yards and demand for ocean liners was huge.
Although ships are still built in Harland and Wolff today, the number of ships and people actually employed is much less than in the heyday of the early 20th century. At its height, Harland and Wolff and the ship yard in Belfast became one of the biggest ship builders in the world.
Harland and Wolff own one of the world's largest dry docks, which is in Belfast. They constructed over 70 ships for the White Star Line.
The Titanic was the best known of these. The gantry cranes weren't around in those days though. Since it was founded, Harland and Wolff has constructed over 1, vessels, having once had yards in Scotland and London as well as Belfast. It has only full-time employees today. It has not built a ship since , when it built two ferries.
Since then, Harland and Wolff has concentrated on renewable energy, including offshore wind and tidal turbines. Workers have been occupying the shipyard for the last week and vowed Monday to continue to fight to keep it in business. The union expects to file in court on Tuesday to seek an injunction from the shipyard closing. Read More. But it had not been able to get the bridge loan, making the bankruptcy process its only choice.
The spokesman said it will be up to the administrator whether or not the company is able to stay in business or be liquidated. Much of the world's cargo shipbuilding has shifted to lower-cost Asian manufacturers, and the business of building luxury cruise ships is dominated by European shipbuilders STX Europe, Meyer Werft and Fincantieri.
Harland and Wolff and other UK shipbuilders lost out on that business to its European rivals decades ago.
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