Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

(Reference: TY-029)

Welder Tom Stitt and Foreman Bobby Simpson discuss with Giles Shaw the Under Secretary of State for NI some of the intricacies in manually welding the first horizontal side shell seam on the LPG Ship No.1711 in the Building Dock.

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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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