Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

Hyades

	GUCC Fleet No.	292
	Class	Star
	Original Type:	Butty
	Known As	Small Woolwich
	Date Built	3.9.35
	Hull Construction	Iron Composite
	Registered	BREN 515
	Intended Paring	53

History

trip boat in Devon on Grand Western Canal, she is currently on the bank awaiting work on her wooden bottom. (Photo:Horse-drawn trip boat Hyades in Tiverton Basin, 1981)

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No. 35 - War Effort By December 1944 there were almost 31,000 employees at Harland and Wolff. Queen's Island launched 170 Admiralty and merchant ships between 1939 and 1945. This included 40 corvettes, 27 minesweepers, 11 frigates and three aircraft carriers. The firm also repaired 30,000 vessels and manufactured 13 million aircraft parts, over 500 tanks, thousands of field guns and hundreds of searchlights.

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